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Atractus albuquerquei CUNHA & NASCIMENTO, 1983

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Albuquerque Ground Snake
Portuguese: Cobra-da-Terra, Fura-Terra 
SynonymAtractus albuquerquei CUNHA & NASCIMENTO 1983
Atractus albuquerquei — ZAHER et al. 2005
Atractus albuquerquei — WALLACH et al. 2014: 68
Atractus albuquerquei — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019 
DistributionBrazil (Rondonia, Pará, Acre, Goiás, Mato Grosso, and Mato Grosso do Sul), Bolivia

Type locality: “no lugar Villa Nova, PA-256, próximo ao Rio Timboteua, rodovia Tomé-Acu-Paragominas.” [in forested
area south of the river Guamá, near the river Timboteua, in the locality called Vila Nova, on the road PA-256, between Tomé-Açu and Paragominas, Pará, Brazil).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MPEG 12946 
Diagnosis 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed in honour of Dr. Dalcy de Oliveira Albuquerque, entomologist in Rio de Janeiro and director of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (1962-1968). 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • BERNARDE, P.S., ALBUQUERQUE, S., BARROS, T.O. & TURCI, L.C.B. 2012. Serpentes do Estado de Rondônia, Brasil. Biota Neotropica 12 (3): 1-29 - get paper here
  • Cacciali, P.; Villalba, R. & Yanosky, A.A. 2007. A NEW SPECIES OF ATRACTUS (SERPENTES:COLUBRIDAE: DIPSADINAE) FROM THE ATLANTIC FOREST OF ALTO PARANÁ, PARAGUAY. South American J. Herp. 2 (2): 83-88 - get paper here
  • Cunha, O R da; do Nascimento F P 1983. Ofidios da Amazonia. 20 - As especies de Atractus Wagler, 1828, na Amazonia oriental & Maranhao (Ophidia, Colubridae). Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi NOVA SERIE ZOOLOGIA (No. 123): 1-38 - get paper here
  • Freitas, M. A. de, Venancio, N. M., Abegg, A. D., Azevedo, W. S, Pereira, V. O., Zanotti, A. P., Veloso, A., Schwarzbach, L., Oliveira, A. G., da Silva, R. C. C., de Amorim, V. R. G. and de Moura, G. J. B. 2020. Herpetofauna at the Rio Acre Ecological Station, Amazon Rainforest, Brazil. Herpetology Notes 13: 33-48. - get paper here
  • Gonzalez R. C. et al. 2020. Lista dos Nomes Populares dos Répteis no Brasil – Primeira Versão. Herpetologia Brasileira 9 (2): 121 – 214 - get paper here
  • Guerra, V., Ramalho, W. P., Machado, I. F., & Brandão, R. A. 2022. Herpetofauna of the Serra do Tombador Nature Reserve, State of Goiás, Central Brazil. Arquivos de Zoologia, 53(3), 33-51 - get paper here
  • Nogueira, Cristiano C.; Antonio J.S. Argôlo, Vanesa Arzamendia, Josué A. Azevedo, Fausto E. Barbo, Renato S. Bérnils, Bruna E. Bolochio, Marcio Borges-Martins, Marcela Brasil-Godinho, Henrique Braz, Marcus A. Buononato, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, 2019. Atlas of Brazilian snakes: verified point-locality maps to mitigate the Wallacean shortfall in a megadiverse snake fauna. South American J. Herp. 14 (Special Issue 1):1-274 - get paper here
  • Passos, P., Dobiey, M., & Venegas, P. J. 2010. Variation and natural history notes on giant groundsnake, Atractus gigas (Serpentes: Dipsadidae). South American J. Herp. 5 (2): 73-82 - get paper here
  • Passos, P., R. Fernandes and Borges-Nojosa, D.M. 2007. A New Species of Atractus (Serpentes: Dipsadinae) from a Relictual Forest in Northeastern Brazil. Copeia 2007 (4): 788–797 - get paper here
  • Passos, Paulo; Josué A.R. Azevedo, Cristiano C. Nogueira, Ronaldo Fernandes, and Ricardo J. Sawaya 2019. An Integrated Approach to Delimit Species in the Puzzling Atractus emmeli Complex (Serpentes: Dipsadidae). Herpetological Monographs 33 (1): 1-25 - get paper here
  • Powell RL, Eversole CB, Lizarro D, Crocker AV, Surovic EA, Vaca GC 2020. Atractus albuquerquei Cunha & Nascimento, 1983 (Serpentes, Dipsadidae): range extension and new country record for Bolivia. Check List 16(2): 383-386 - get paper here
  • Vaz-Silva, W.; RM Oliveira, AFN Gonzaga, KC Pinto, FC Poli, TM Bilce, M Penhacek, L Wronski, JX Martins, TG Junqueira, LCC, Cesca VY, Guimarães RD. Pinheiro 2015. Contributions to the knowledge of amphibians and reptiles from Volta Grande do Xingu, northern Brazil Braz. J. Biol., 75 (3) (suppl.): S205-S218 - 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.
  • ZAHER, HUSSAM; IVAN SOUZA; DAVID J. GOWER; ERIKA HINGST-ZAHER; NELSON JORGE DA SILVA JR. 2005. REDESCRIPTION OF ATRACTUS ALBUQUERQUEI (SERPENTES: COLUBRIDAE: DIPSADINAE), WITH COMMENTS ON GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION AND INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION. Pap. Avul. Zool., Sao Paulo 45 (2): 19-32 - get paper here
 
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