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    Species Accepted

    Atractus major Boulenger, 1894

    Big Ground Snake
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Atractus
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      9 results
      Big Ground Snake English
      Brown Ground Snake English
      Brun Tensnog Danish
      Cobra-Cega Portuguese
      Cobra-Coral Portuguese
      Colombia Ground Snake English
      Coral (falsa) Spanish
      Grande Culebra de Tierra Spanish
      Большой атрактус Russian

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
      2 results
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Boulenger G. A. 1894. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II, Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridae Aglyphae. British Museum (Natural History), London. Published in
      Passos, Paulo; Philippe J. R. Kok, Nelson R. de Albuquerque, and Gilson A. Rivas. (2013). Groundsnakes of the Lost World: A Review of Atractus (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from the Pantepui Region, Northern South America. Herpetological Monographs 27 (1): 52-86.
      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.
      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.
      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, PAULO; VINÍCIUS SUDRÉ, GIULIANO DORIA & PATRICK D. CAMPBELL. (2018). The taxonomic status of the “forgotten” Bolivian snakes, Atractus balzani Boulenger 1898 and Atractus maculatus (sensu Boulenger 1896) (Serpentes: Dipsadidae). Zootaxa 4438 (1): 176–182.
      Bernal, R. (2025). Serpientes de Colombia-Guía de Campo. Serie de Guías Tropicales de Campo. 19: 396 Pp. Conservación Internacional Colombia, Bogotá.
      Duellman, W.E., & Salas, A.W. (1991). Annotated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Cuzco Amazonico, Peru. Occas. Papers Mus. Of Natur. Hist., Univ. Of Kansas, Lawrence (143): 13 Pp.
      Kornacker, P. M. (1999). Checklist and key to the snakes of Venezuela. PaKo-Verlag, Rheinbach, Germany, 270 Pp.
      Rabosky, Daniel L.; Rudolf von May, Michael C. Grundler and Alison R. Davis Rabosky. (2019). The Western Amazonian Richness Gradient for Squamate Reptiles: Are There Really Fewer Snakes and Lizards in Southwestern Amazonian Lowlands? Diversity 11: 199; Doi:10.3390/D11100199.

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