Boas ( lat. Boinae ) - one of the three subfamilies of the family pseudopods .
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 A real boa constrictor eats a victim | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Boinae Gray, 1825 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The main distinguishing feature from pythons is the absence of the infraorbital bone and egg production .
Types
| The Boa Subfamily - 5 species | |||||
| Rod [1] | Author [1] | View [1] | Subspecies * [1] | Russian name | Distribution [2] |
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| Boa t | Linnaeus , 1758 | four | 9 | Common boas | Mexico , Central America , South America , Madagascar and Reunion . |
| Candoia | Gray , 1842 | four | 2 | Pacific boas | from Samoa and Tokelau west through Melanesia to New Guinea and the Moluccas . |
| Corallus | Daudin , 1803 | 7 | 2 | Narrow-bellied boas | Central America, South America and the West Indies . In Central America, they are found in Honduras , east of Guatemala in Nicaragua , Costa Rica and Panama . Their range in South America includes the Pacific part of Colombia and Ecuador , as well as the Amazonian lowlands from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Bolivia through Brazil to Venezuela , Margarita , Trinidad , Tobago , Guyana , Suriname and French Guiana . In the West Indies, they are found on the island of Saint Vincent , the Grenadines , Grenada and the Leeward Islands . |
| Epicrates | Wagler , 1830 | ten | 21 | Smooth-boas | from the south of Central America through South America and south to Argentina , as well as in the West Indies. |
| Eunectes | Wagler, 1830 | 3 | one | Anacondas | Tropical South America from Colombia and Venezuela south to Argentina. |
*) Not counting candidate subspecies.
T ) Type genus [2] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Boas (English) according to the United Taxonomy Information Service (ITIS).
- ↑ 1 2 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).