Albuquerque Ground Snake
Atractus albuquerquei Da Cunha & Do Nascimento, 1983
Also calledCobra-da-Terra (por) · Fura-Terra (por)
First described in: Cunha, O. R. D., & Do Nascimento F P. Ofidios da Amazonia. 20 - As especies de Atractus Wagler, 1828, na Amazonia oriental & Maranhao (Ophidia, Colubridae).
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 151 A). Widespread in Cerrado and its contacts with Amazonia and Chiquitano Dry Forest (Plt. 151 A), at low to intermediate elevations (Plt. 151 B). Observed in the field in forest in Amazonia (Cunha and Nascimento, 1983 a), and grassland and open savanna in the Cerrado (Zaher et al., 2005; Valdujo et al., 2009; Nascimento et al., 2017).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
materials_examined
Type locality. Vila Nova (on the PA- 256 road between Tomé-AÇu and Paragominas), near Rio Capim (formerly Rio Timboteua; Cunha and Nascimento, 1983 a), Tomé-AÇu, state of Pará, Brazil.
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5223866.