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    Species Accepted

    Atractus ventrimaculatus Boulenger, 1905

    Speckled Ground Snake
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Atractus
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Speckled Ground Snake English
      Пятнистобрюхий атрактус Russian

      Bibliography

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      Boulenger, G. A. (1905). Description of new Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7, Vol. 15, No. 89. Published in
      Boulenger, George A. (1905). Descriptions of new snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 15 (89): 453-456.
      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.
      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.
      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.
      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.
      Bernal, R. (2025). Serpientes de Colombia-Guía de Campo. Serie de Guías Tropicales de Campo. 19: 396 Pp. Conservación Internacional Colombia, Bogotá.
      Schargel, W. E., & Castoe, T. A. (2003). The hemipenes of some snakes of the semifossorial genus Atractus, with comments on variation in the genus. Journal of Herpetology 37 (4): 718-781.
      Kornacker, P. M. (1999). Checklist and key to the snakes of Venezuela. PaKo-Verlag, Rheinbach, Germany, 270 Pp.
      Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J.M.; Rivero, Edwin E. Infante; Barrio-Amorós, César L.; Blanco, Tito R. Barros. (2007). New distributional records of amphibians and reptiles from Estado Zulia in the Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela. Herpetological Review 38 (2): 235-237.

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