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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusAtractus
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IUCN NE · Not evaluated

Atlas Ground Snake

Atractus atlas Passos, Scanferla, Melo-Sampaio, Brito & Almendariz, 2018

Also calledCulebra Tierrera del Atlas (spa)

First described in: Passos, Paulo; Agustín Scanferla; Paulo R. Melo-Sampaio; Jorge Brito; Ana Almendariz. A giant on the ground: another large-bodied Atractus (Serpentes: Dipsadinae) from Ecuadorian Andes, with comments on the dietary specializations of the goo-eaters snakes.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 11135811.