Corallus batesii (lat.) - a species of non-poisonous snakes from the family of pseudopods (Boidae). The species was described in 1860 by Edward Gray in the article “Description of a new genus of Boidae discovered by Mr. Bates on the Upper Amazon "called Chrysenis batesi . Named after the English naturalist Henry Walter Bates , the author of the find [2] . Later, the Boulenger carried the boa constrictor to the species of dog-headed boa ( Corallus caninus ). In 2009, Corallus batesii was again recognized as an independent species thanks to Robert Hendersen and his work, based on 192 finds of boas [3] [4] .
| Corallus batesii |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Infraclass : | Lepidosauromorphs |
| Infrastructure : | Alethinophidia |
| Gender: | Narrow-bellied boas |
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| International scientific name |
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Corallus batesii ( Gray , 1860) |
| Synonyms |
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- [ Boa ] batesii Gray, 1860
- Chrysenis batesii Gray, 1860
- Corallus caninus - Boulenger, 1893
- Corallus caninus - Amaral , 1825
- Corallus caninus
- JA Peters & Orejas-Miranda, 1970 [1] - Corallus batesii Henderson , 2009
- Corallus batesii Wallach , 2014
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The body is up to 3 m long, emerald, green, occasionally blackish in color with a white pattern on the back. Young individuals of orange color with a white pattern; differs from Corallus caninus in a large number of scutes on the head and the presence of a longitudinal white strip in most individuals [5] .
The species lives in the tropical forests of Brazil , Bolivia , Colombia , Peru and Ecuador at an altitude of up to 1000 m above sea level [6] .
- ↑ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA , Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1 . Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
- ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5 . ( Corallus batesii , p. 19).
- ↑ Henderson RW, Passos P., Feitosa D. Geographic variation in the Emerald Treeboa, Corallus caninus (Squamata: Boidae) (Eng.) // Copeia: journal. - 2009. - No. 3 . - P. 572-582 . - ISSN 0045-8511 . - DOI : 10.1643 / CH-08-190 .
- ↑ Henderson RW, Pauers MJ, Colston TJ On the congruence of morphology, trophic ecology, and phylogeny in Neotropical treeboas (Squamata: Boidae: Corallus) (Eng.) // Biological Journal of the Linnean Society: journal. - 2013 .-- Vol. 109 , no. 2 . - P. 466-475 . - ISSN 10.1111 / bij.12052 .
- ↑ Henderson Robert W., Pauers Michael J., Colston Timothy J. On the congruence of morphology, trophic ecology, and phylogeny in Neotropical treeboas (Squamata: Boidae: Corallus ) // Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. - 2013 .-- Vol. 109, No. 2 . - P. 466-475. - DOI : 10.1111 / bij.12052 .
- ↑ Bernarde PS, ALbuquerque, S. Barros, T.0, & Turci, LCB 2012. Serpentes do Estado de Rondônia, Brasil . Biota neotrop. 12 (3): 1-29.