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Atractus micheleae ESQUEDA & LA MARCA, 2005

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymAtractus micheleae ESQUEDA & LA MARCA 2005
Atractus michelae — WALLACH et al. 2014: 76 (in error)
Atractus micheleae — ESQUEDA et al. 2025 
DistributionVenezuela (Mérida)

Type locality: Venezuela, Estado Mérida, Municipio Arzobispo Chacón, cerca de la población de Canaguá, approx. 1700 m elevation, coordenadas estimadas 8° 10’ 24’’ N, 71° 28’ 52’’ W.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ULABG 2672 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Esqueda & LA MARCA 2005: 14 (pdf password-protected, hence no text available).


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CommentSynonymy: Passos et al. 2024 considered Atractus micheleae as a synonym of Atractus indistinctus. 
Etymologynamed after Michele Ataroff, the collector of the holotype. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Esqueda, L. F., Ortiz, J. C., Correa, C., Guerrero, P. C., Navarrete, L. F., & Urra, F. 2025. Integrative Taxonomic Assessment of Two Atractus (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from Mérida Andes, Venezuela. Diversity, 17(10), 725 - get paper here
  • Esqueda, L.F. & E. La Marca 2005. Revisión taxonómica y biogeográfica (con descripción de cinco nuevas especies) de serpientes del género Atractus (Colubridae: Dipsadinae) en los Andes de Venezuela. Herpetotropicos 2 (1): 1-32 - get paper here
  • Esqueda, L.F., Rojas-Runjaic, F.J., Prudente, A.; Santos Bazó, Luis Fernando Navarrete, Edward Carmargo-Sillet, Juan Carlos Ortiz, Claudio Correa, Pablo Guerrero & Félix Urra 2025. A first phylogenetic and taxonomic approach to sleepyhead snakes from Venezuela (Dipsadidae: Atractus), with the description of two new Andean species. Org Divers Evol. - get paper here
  • Natera-Mumaw, Marco; Luis Felipe Esqueda-González & Manuel Castelaín-Fernández 2015. Atlas Serpientes de Venezuela. Santiago de Chile, Dimacofi Negocios Avanzados S.A., 456 pp. - get paper here
  • Passos, P., Meneses-Pelayo, E., Ramos, L. O., Martins, A. R., Machado, A., Lopes, R. T., ... & Lynch, J. D. 2024. Taxonomy without borders: Revision of the genus Atractus (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from the Andes between Colombia and Venezuela. South American Journal of Herpetology, 32(sp1), 1-123 - get paper here
  • RIVAS, GILSON A.; CÉSAR R. MOLINA, GABRIEL N. UGUETO, TITO R. BARROS, CÉSAR L. BAR- RIO-AMORÓS & PHILIPPE J. R. KOK 2012. Reptiles of Venezuela: an updated and commented checklist. Zootaxa 3211: 1–64 - 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.
 
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