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Subtribe
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, by subsequent designation by Stejneger, 1892 [dated 1891]: 501.
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<emphasis id="B4F9EAE7FF8EFFA2FF5C3251FED1FDE5" bold="true" box="[197,324,534,560]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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is distinguished from Epictina by having small supraoculars (versus absent or normalsized in Epictina), lacking a striped pattern, and having a uniform brown (usually dark brown) dorsum, sometimes purplish but not with reds or yellows (
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).
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is distinguished from
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by having 23 (
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<emphasis id="B4F9EAE7FF8EFFA2FE7A32CDFD01FD76" box="[483,660,650,675]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Tricheilostoma</emphasis>
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) supralabials versus usually
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(one species has 34 supralabials). The support for this group was 100% BP and 100% PP for the four-gene tree (
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); only one species was included in the nine-gene tree (
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).
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<emphasis id="B4F9EAE7FF8EFFA2FF5C32B9FEA4FCCD" bold="true" box="[197,305,766,792]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Content.</emphasis>
Two genera and 20 species (
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).
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<emphasis id="B4F9EAE7FF8EFFA2FF5C3362FEF0FCEA" bold="true" box="[197,357,805,831]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Distribution.</emphasis>
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is distributed in the New World from North America (California, Utah, and Kansas) south through Middle and South America (exclusive of the high Andes) to
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and
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on the Atlantic side.
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<emphasis id="B4F9EAE7FF8EFFA2FF5C33DFFED4FC67" bold="true" box="[197,321,920,946]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Remarks.</emphasis>
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includes the former
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<emphasis id="B4F9EAE7FF8EFFA2FD0633DEFCB1FC67" box="[671,804,921,946]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">macrolepis</emphasis>
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Group (now
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<emphasis id="B4F9EAE7FF8EFFA2FC5033DEFBEAFC67" box="[969,1151,921,946]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Tricheilostoma</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B4F9EAE7FF8EFFA2FB5F33DEFAD3FC67" box="[1222,1350,921,946]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">dimidiatus</emphasis>
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Group (now
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) of &quot;
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&quot; (
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;
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). These two genera are broadly similar in scalation and coloration, supporting the molecular phylogenetic results.
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