Basin Ground Snake
Atractus poeppigi (Jan, 1862)
First described in: Jan, G. Enumerazione sistematico delle specie d’ofidi del gruppo Calamaridae.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
(Fig. 12 F) The combination of cryptozoic habits of species and shortfalls of biological knowledge on Amazonia usually provide challenging cases in defining distributional limits for the snake genus Atractus Wagler, 1928 (Fraga et al., 2017). For instance, A. poeppigi (already considered a synonym of Atractus elaps Günther, 1858 [Dixon et al., 1976]) is a representative of an Atractus species with an irresolute distribution, composed by patchily distributed localities of occurrence. With occurrence records ranging from the Andean foothills to the central lowland Amazonia (Nogueira et al., 2019), A. poeppigi can be considered widely distributed, and records in the RBJ (three individuals) help to fill some of the knowledge gaps in its distribution.
Amphibians and reptiles from a protected area in western Brazilian Amazonia (Reserva Extrativista do Baixo Juruá)
distribution
Distribution. Known from Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, in Amazonian forest (Plt. 174 A). In Brazil, restricted to Amazonia (Plt. 174 A) at low to intermediate elevations (Plt. 174 B). Observed in the field in primary and secondary forest (Dixon et al., 1976, Martins and Oliveira, 1993).
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 5223898.