Atractus duboisi (BOULENGER, 1880)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Rhabdosoma Duboisi BOULENGER 1880: 44 Atractus duboisi — PASSOS et al. 2009 Atractus duboisi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 71
Distribution	Ecuador (known only from Cordillera Real on the Atlantic versant of the Andes, occurring from Baeza (00° 27’ S, 77° 53’ W) to Cordillera de Guacamayos (00° 43’ S, 77° 55’ W) in the Napo Province of Ecuador. This species inhabits the Mountain Cloud Forest formation, and occurs at elevations between 1500– 2200 m) Type locality: Ecuador
Reproduction	oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: IRSNB (= RBINS) 2008, adult male, (Musée de l’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique), from Ecuador, gift by Mr. De Ville in 1874, without specific locality (specimen photograph examined).
Diagnosis	Diagnosis in Passos et al. 2009.
Comment	Rhabdosoma Duboisi BOULENGER 1880 has been synonymized previously with Atractus occipitoalbus (by SAVAGE 1960) but revalidated by Passos et al. 2009.
Etymology	Named after Charles Frederic Dubois (1804-1867) or his son, Alphonse Joseph Charles Dubois (1839-1921), both Belgian naturalists.
References	Arteaga, A.; Bustamante, L.; Vieira, J. 2024. Reptiles of Ecuador. Khamai Foundation & Tropical Herping, 1073 pp. - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Boulenger, George A. 1880. Reptiles et Batraciens recueillis par M. Emile de Ville dans les Andes de l'équateur. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 5: 41-48 - get paper here Melo-Sampaio PR, Venegas PJ 2023. A new species of groundsnake genus Atractus Wagler, 1828 (Serpentes, Dipsadidae) from the Peruvian Andes revealed by unequivocal morphological characters. Evolutionary Systematics 7(2): 257-266 - get paper here Passos, Paulo; Altagratia Chiesse, Omar Torres-Carvajal, and Jay M. Savage 2009. TESTING SPECIES BOUNDARIES WITHIN THE ATRACTUS OCCIPITOALBUS COMPLEX (SERPENTES: DIPSADIDAE). Herpetologica 65 (4): 384-403 - get paper here Torres-Carvajal O, Pazmiño-Otamendi G, Salazar-Valenzuela D. 2019. Reptiles of Ecuador: a resource-rich portal, with a dynamic checklist and photographic guides. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13 (1): [General Section]: 209–229 (e178) - get paper here 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. Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information https://bioweb.bio/faunaweb/reptiliaweb/FichaEspecie/Atractus%20duboisi Google images

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