Biology:Epicrates (snake)

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Short description: Genus of snakes

Epicrates
EpicratesCenchriaCenchria2.jpg
Brazilian rainbow boa, E. c. cenchria
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Boidae
Subfamily: Boinae
Genus: Epicrates
Wagler, 1830
Synonyms
  • Epicrates Wagler, 1830
  • Chilabothrus
    A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844
  • Cliftia Gray, 1849
  • Epicarsius Fischer, 1856
  • Homalochilus Fischer, 1856
  • Piesigaster Seoane, 1881
  • Epicrates Boulenger, 1893
  • Boella
    H.M. Smith & Chiszar, 1992[1]

Epicrates is a genus of non-venomous snakes in the subfamily Boinae of the family Boidae. The genus is native to South America and Central America. Five species are currently recognized as being valid, including the rainbow boa.[2]

Distribution and habitat

Species of Epicrates are found in lower Central America through South America as far south as Argentina .[1]

Species

Species[2] Taxon author[2] Subspecies*[2] Common name Geographic range[1] Image
E. alvarezi Ábalos, Báez & Nader, 1964 0 Argentinian rainbow boa northern Argentina, southeastern Bolivia, western Paraguay
Epicrates alvarezi.JPG
E. assisi Machado, 1945 0 Caatinga rainbow boa Brazil
Epicrates assisi (10.3897-zookeys.787.26946) Figure 4 (cropped).jpg
E. cenchriaT (Linnaeus, 1758) 4* Rainbow boa[2] French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil , Bolivia, and Argentina
Rainbow boa peruvian.jpg
E. crassus (Cope, 1862) 0 Paraguayan rainbow boa Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil
Epicrates crassus.jpeg
E. maurus Gray, 1849 0 Colombian rainbow boa; Brown rainbow boa Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, northern Brazil, Trinidad, Tobago, Isla Margarita.
Rainbow Boa jlbd1.JPG
  • ) Not including the nominate subspecies.

T) Type species.[1]

Etymology

The specific name, alvarezi, is in honor of Argentine herpetologist Antenor Álvarez (1864–1948).[3]

The specific name, assisi, is in honor of Arlindo de Assis who collected the holotype.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 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. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN:1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN:1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Epicrates". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=174327. Retrieved 6 July 2008. 
  3. ↑ 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. (Epicrates alvarezi, p. 6).
  4. ↑ Species Epicrates assisi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q636092 entry



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