Boinae
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Boinae
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The Boinae are a subfamily of boas found in Central and South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia (Reunion Island, Mauritius, the Maluku Islands and New Guinea).[1] Five genera comprising 28 species are currently recognized.[2]
Genera
| Subfamily Boinae -- 5 genera | |||||
| Genus[2] | Taxon author[2] | Species[2] | Subsp.*[2] | Common name[2] | Geographic range[1] |
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| BoaT | Linnaeus, 1758 | 1 | 9 | Boas | Mexico, Central America, South America, and Reunion Island |
| Candoia | Gray, 1842 | 4 | 2 | Bevel-nosed boas | from Samoa and Tokelau west through Melanesia to New Guinea and the Maluku Islands |
| Corallus | Daudin, 1803 | 7 | 2 | Neotropical tree boas | Central America, South America and the West Indies: In Central America, they occur in Honduras, eastern Guatemala through Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Its range in South America includes Pacific Colombia and Ecuador, as well as the Amazon Basin from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Bolivia through Brazil to Venezuela, Isla Margarita, Trinidad, Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. In the West Indies, it is found on St. Vincent, the Grenadines (Bequia Island, Ile Quatre, Baliceaux, Mustique, Canouan, Maryeau, Union Island, Petit Martinique and Carriacou), Grenada, and the Windward Islands (Lesser Antilles). |
| Epicrates | Wagler, 1830 | 10 | 21 | Rainbow boas | Lower Central America through South America as far south as Argentina, as well as in the West Indies |
| Eunectes | Wagler, 1830 | 4 | 1 | Anacondas | Tropical South America from Colombia and Venezuela south to Argentina |
| <templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†Titanoboa | Head et al., 2009 | 1 | 0 | N/A | Fossils of 28 individuals were found in the Cerrejon Formation in Colombia, dating back to the Paleocene epoch of the Paleogene period, 60-58 Mya |
*) Not including the nominate subspecies.
T) Type genus.[1]
Taxonomy
The genera Acrantophis and Sanzinia were erroneously synonymized with the genus Boa by Kluge in 1991.[3] These have now been transferred to the resurrected subfamily Sanziniinae.[4][5] The genus Candoia has similarly been transferred to its own subfamily, Candoiinae.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
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Further reading
- Kluge AG. 1991. Boine Snake Phylogeny and Research Cycles. Misc. Pub. Museum of Zoology, Univ. of Michigan No. 178. PDF at University of Michigan Library. Accessed 8 July 2008.
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