Bolyeria multocarinata (BOIE, 1827)
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Higher Taxa | Bolyeriidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Common Names | E: Round Island Burrowing Boa G: Mauritius-Boa |
Synonym | Eryx multocarinata BOIE 1827: 513 Tortrix Pseudo-eryx SCHLEGEL 1837: 19 Bolyeria Pseudo-eryx — GRAY 1842: 46 Platygaster multicarinatus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1844: 497 (emendation) Bolyeria multicarinata — GRAY 1849: 106 Platygaster multicarinatus — JAN 1861 Platygaster multicarinatus — JAN 1862: 247 Bolieria multicarinata — BOULENGER 1893: 122 Bolyeria multocarinata — STIMSON 1969: 4 Bolyeria multocarinata — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 213 Bolyeria multocarinata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 108 Bolyeria multomaculata — BAUER 2017 (in error) |
Distribution | Round Island (off the coast of Mauritius) Type locality: "Port Jackson" |
Reproduction | oviparous. |
Types | Holotype: MNHN-RA 7185 |
Diagnosis | Diagnosis (genus): Anterior maxillary and mandibular teeth a little longer than the posterior. Head very small, not distinct from neck; snout covered with shields; nostril pierced in a single nasal. Eye very small, with vertical pupil. Body cylindrical. Scales small, hexagonal, juxtaposed or very feebly imbricate, tri- or quinquecarinate. Tail moderate, feebly prehensile; suboaudals single. (Boulenger 1893: 122) Description (species): Snout very prominent, rounded. Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above; a pair of internasals, a pair of large praefrontals, a large supraocular, two preeoculars, four or five postoculars; nine upper labials, first and second, or second only, in contact with the priefrontal, fourth entering the eye. Scales in 53 to 57 rows. Ventrals 192-200; anal entire; subcaudals 83-92. Pale brown or greyish olive above, with small darker spots, which may form an irregular network; a dark streak on each side of the head behind the eye; a series of blackish vertical bars on each side of the tail; yellowish beneath, spotted or marbled with blackish. Total length 1000 millim.; tail 200. (Boulenger 1893: 123) |
Comment | Conservation: May be extinct now (fide Glaw, pers. comm.) Type species: Tortrix pseudoeryx SCHLEGEL 1837 is the type species of the genus Bolyeria GRAY 1842. |
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