Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897)

Cope, Edward D. 1876. "On the Batrachia and Reptilia of Costa Rica"; "On the Batrachia and Reptilia collected by Dr. John M. Branford during the Nicaraguan Canal Survey of 1874"; and "Report on the Reptiles brought by Professor James Orton from the middle and upper Amazon and western Peru". Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. N.S. 8 (2):93-183, 6 plates.

Below is a list of species described in these papers, in the order they were described.

Cranopsis fastidiosus gen. et sp. nov.
Crepidius epioticus gen. et sp. nov.
Ollotis cÏrulescens gen. et sp. nov.
Bufo auritus sp. nov.
Hyla gabbii sp. nov.
Hyla uranochroa sp. nov.
Hyla nigripes sp. nov.
Hyla elæochroa sp. nov.
Phyllobates hylæformis sp. nov.
Lithodytes podiciferus sp. nov.
Lithodytes muricinus sp. nov.
Lithodytes melanostictus sp. nov.
Lithodytes megacephalus sp. nov.
Lithodytes gulosus sp. nov.
Hylodes cerasinus sp. nov.
Mabuia alliacea sp. nov.
Epaphelus sumichrastii gen. et sp. nov.
Chalcidolepis metallicus gen. et sp. nov.
Amiva gabbiana sp. nov.
Anolis pachypus sp. nov.
Anolis oxylophus sp. nov.
Basiliscus plumifrons sp. nov.
Xiphosoma annulatum sp. nov.
Xiphosoma rushenbergerii sp. nov.
Leptognathus argus sp. nov.
Leptognathus pictiventris sp. nov.
Trimorphodon collaris sp. nov.
Leptophis æruginosus sp. nov.
Leptophis saturatus sp. nov.
Dendrophidium melanotropis sp. nov.
Geagras redimitus sp. nov.
Tantilla armillata sp. nov.
Tantilla bimaculata sp. nov.
Tantilla rubra sp. nov.
Contia pachypura sp. nov.
Contia calligaster sp. nov.
Catastoma psephotum sp. nov.
Bothriopsis proboscideus sp. nov.
Lachesis stenophrys sp. nov.
Chelopus gabbii sp. nov.
Chelopus funereus sp. nov.
Lithodytes diastema sp. nov.
Basiliscus guttulatus sp. nov.
Lepidosoma carinicaudatum sp. nov.
Neusticurus ecpleopus sp. nov.
Centropyx altamazonicus sp. nov.
Cnemidophorus armatulus sp. nov.
Scytomycterus lævis gen. et sp. nov.
Anolis bocourtii sp. nov.
Anolis trachyderma sp. nov.
Enyalius coerulescens sp. nov.
Hyperanodon peltigerus sp. nov.
Microlophus inguinalis sp. nov.
Proctotretus multiformis sp. nov.
Phyllodactylus inæqualis sp. nov.
Phyllodactylus microphyllus sp. nov.
Amphisbæna occidentalis sp. nov.
Leptophis ortonii sp. nov.
Herpetodryas holochlorus sp. nov.
Drymobius heathii sp. nov.
Lygophis pÏcilostomus sp. nov.
Tantilla capistrata sp. nov.
Bothrops microphthalmus sp. nov.

All six plates from these papers are illustarated here
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