Abstract
About 20 species of the colubrid snake genus Atractus have been reported from Venezuela (Markezich & Barrio-Amorós 2004). Our attention was recently drawn to the simultaneous description of two new and very similar Atractus species from northeastern Venezuela (Markezich & Barrio-Amorós 2004, Sánchez et al. 2004). In this paper we show that these two species are actually conspecific and that Atractus nororientalis Sánchez, De Sousa, Esqueda & Manzanilla, 2004 is a junior synonym of Atractus matthewi Markezich & Barrio-Amorós, 2004.
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