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Walker's Slender Snake

Galvarinus attenuatus Walker, 1945

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from
Bolivia, S Peru
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Recorded sightings

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References

  • Quinteros-Muñoz, OLIVER & RODRIGO AGUAYO. (2022). New elevational record for Walker’s Slender Snake, Tachymenis attenuata Walker 1945 (Squamata: Dipsadidae), with notes on taxonomy and natural history. Reptiles & Amphibians 29(1): 152–154.
  • Gómez-Murillo, Pedro; Oliver Quinteros-Muñoz, Enrique Domic, Teresa Camacho-Badani, Romeo Rojas-Estrada, Irene Arellano-Martín, Rodrigo Aguayo, Lucindo Gonzales, Luis F. Esqueda, Carlos Urdiales Alonso, Dennis E. Lizarro (†), Edson Cortez, Mauricio Ocampo, Steffen Reichle, Octavio Jiménez-Robles, Rene Carpio-Rea, Omar M. Entiauspe- Neto, Luis Rolando Rivas, Alfonso Llobet, Alejandro Bruno Miranda-Calle, Alvaro J. Aguilar-Kirigin & Ignacio De la Riva. (2025). Catalogue of the reptiles (Reptilia) of Bolivia: checklist, distribution and literature. Cuadernos de Herpetología 39(S1):2-185.
  • Walker, W. F. (1945). A Study of the Snake, Tachymenis peruviana Wiegmann AND ITS Allies. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 96: 1-56.
  • Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams, Jeff Boundy. (2014). Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue]. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 Pp.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.