Atractus emigdioi

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Rivas, G. |author2=Schargel, W. |year=2016 |title=Atractus emigdioi |page=e.T68603351A68603356 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T68603351A68603356.en}}

| genus = Atractus

| species = emigdioi

| authority = González-Sponga, 1971

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Atractus emigdioi, also known commonly as Emigdio's ground snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Venezuela.

Etymology

The specific name, emigdioi, is in honor of Emigdio González-Sponga who collected the holotype.{{cite book |author1-link=Bo Beolens |last1=Beolens |first1=Bo |author2-link=Michael Watkins (zoologist) |last2=Watkins |first2=Michael |last3=Grayson |first3=Michael |year=2011 |title=The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles |location=Baltimore |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |pages=xiii + 296 pp |isbn=978-1-4214-0135-5}}{{rp|83}}

Geographic range

A. emigdioi is found in the Cordillera de Mérida in the Venezuelan states of Mérida and Trujillo.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of A. emigdioi is forest, at altitudes of {{cvt|2,100|–|3,000|m|ft}}.

Behavior

A. emigdioi is terrestrial and semifossorial.{{cite journal |author1-link=Walter E. Schargel |last1=Schargel |first1=WE |author2-link=Todd Adam Castoe |last2=Castoe |first2=TA |year=2003 |title=The Hemipenes of Some Snakes of the Semifossorial Genus Atractus, with Comments on Variation in the Genus |journal=Journal of Herpetology |volume=37 |issue=4 |pages=718–721 |doi=10.1670/7-02N |jstor=1565874}}

Reproduction

A. emigdioi is oviparous.

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