Abraham Mijares-Urrutia

Abraham Mijares-Urrutia is a Venezuelan herpetologist.

He is specialized in amphibian and reptiles from the northern South America and Australia. He works at CIEZA, Centro de Investigaciones en Ecología y Zonas Áridas of the Francisco de Miranda National Experimental University in Venezuela.^[1] He described multiple species from for the first time mainly from Venezuela, working together with among others Enrique La Marca and Wolfgang Wüster. The snake species Atractus mijaresi was named in his honor in 2005.^{[2][3]: 178}