Two new species of ground snakes discovered in the Ecuadorian Amazon

March 1, 2021

A group of researchers from the Museu Nacional of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (Brazil), Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (Peru) and PUCE (Ecuador) discovered four new species of ground snakes of the genus Atractus. Two of them, Atractus…