TheBestLinks.com
TheBestLinks.com
Abaco Island Boa, Animal, Chordate, 1944, Reptilia, Genus, Family (biology)... Print friendly version | Tell a friend
 
Navigation
Search
Toolbox

Abaco Island Boa

From TheBestLinks.com

Abaco Island Boa
Status: Secure
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Boidae
Subfamily: Boinae
Genus: Epicrates
Species: exsul
Binomial name
Epicrates exsul

Netting & Goin, 1944

The Abaco Island Boa is a slender, terrestrial, viviparous boa with an iridescent reddish sheen of the scales. It grows up to 80 cm long. It feeds on small mammals, birds and lizards. As a member of the rainbow boas (genus Epicrates), it belongs to the family of the true boas (Boidae).

Other common name : Northern Bahamas Boa.

Distribution

On the Great Abaco Island, Bahamas.


Literature :

Dirksen, L. & M. Auliya (2001): Zur Systematik und Biologie der Riesenschlangen (Boidae). -Draco, Münster, 2(1): 4-19.

McDiarmid etc. (1999): Snake species of the world, v.1.

Related links


Top visited 0 of 0 links

[no links posted yet]

>> place link >>

Discussion

Last posted 0 of 0 messages

[no messages posted yet]

>> post message >>

Watch

You can add this article to your own "watchlist" and receive e-mail notification about all changes in this page.
 
   
Innovate it
This page was last modified 08:57, 25 Aug 2004.
  Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2.
Powered by MediaWiki