Atractus eriki

Atractus eriki
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Atractus
Species:	A. eriki
Binomial name
Atractus eriki Esqueda, La Marca & Bazó, 2005

Atractus eriki is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Venezuela.

Etymology

The specific name, eriki, is in honor of Erik La Marca (born 1990), who is the youngest son of Venezuelan herpetologist Enrique La Marca.^[2]

Geographic range

A. eriki is native to the western slope of the Cordillera de Mérida in the western Venezuelan states of Mérida, Táchira, and Trujillo.^[1][3]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of A. eriki is forest, at altitudes of 900–1,500 m (3,000–4,900 ft).^[1]

Reproduction

A. eriki is oviparous.^[3]

References

1. Rivas, G.; Schargel, W. (2019). "Atractus eriki". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T67610399A67610404. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T67610399A67610404.en. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Atractus eriki, p. 85).
3. Atractus eriki at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 8 October 2021.

Further reading

• Esqueda LF, La Marca E, Bazó S (2005). "Un nuevo colúbrido fossorial del género Atractus (Dipsadinae) de la vertiente lacustre de Los Andes de Venezuela". Herpetotropicos 2 (2): 87–93. (Atractus eriki, new species). (in Spanish, with an abstract in English).
• Natera Mumaw, Marco; Esqueda González, Luis Felipe; Castelain Fernández, Manuel (2015). Serpientes de Venezuela: Una Vision Actual de su Diversidad. Santiago de Chile: Dimacofi Negocios Avanzados S.A. 456 pp. (in Spanish).
• Rivas GA, Molina CR, Ugueto GN, Barros TR, Barrio-Amorós CL, Kok PJR (2012). "Reptiles of Venezuela: an updated and commented checklist". Zootaxa 3211: 1–64.
• Wallach V, Williams KL, Boundy J (2014). Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. Boca Raton, London, New York: CRC Press, an Imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group. 1,237 pp. ISBN 978-1482208474. (Atractus eriki, p. 72).