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Clark's Ground Snake
Atractus clarki
Atractus clarki, Clark's ground snake, is a rare species of snake in the family Colubridae. It is one of only five species of the very diverse (>150 species) genus Atractus that enters political North America.
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Range & habitat
The species can be found in extreme southern Panama, the Pacific coast of Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. The species was first collected in 1938 from Santa Cruz de Cana, a 16th century gold mine on the eastern flank of the Serranía de Pirre mountains close to the Colombian border. A second specimen from adjacent Colombia was collected in 1919 but not correctly identified until 2003. The species is now known from numerous records in Ecuador and Colombia.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
In human culture
It is named in honor of Herbert C. Clark, instigator of the Panamanian snake census and first director of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 27914.