Chilabothrus monensis (ZENNECK, 1898)

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Higher Taxa	Boidae (Boinae), Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Mona Boa, Mona Island Boa; granti: Virgin Islands boa G: Mona-Schlankboa
Synonym	Epicrates monensis ZENNECK 1898: 64 Epicrates monensis — STEJNEGER 1904: 692 Epicrates gracilis monensis — STIMSON 1969 Epicrates monensis — SHEPLAN & SCHWARTZ 1974: 98 Epicrates monensis — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988 Epicrates monensis — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 608 Epicrates monensis — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 198 Chilabothrus monensis — REYNOLDS et al. 2013 Epicrates monensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 274 Chilabothrus monensis — RODRÍGUEZ-ROBLES et al. 2015 Chilabothrus monensis — REYNOLDS & HENDERSON 2018: 13
Distribution	Puerto Rico (Mona Island) Type locality: Mona Island, near Puerto Rico.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Syntypes: ZMH, now destroyed
Diagnosis
Comment	Illustrations: Grant, 1932; MacLean, 1982; Schwartz and Henderson, 1985; Tolson, 1987; Tolson, 1989. Subspecies: Chilabothrus monensis granti (STULL 1933) has been elevated to full species status. Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Campbell, H.W. & F.G. Thompson 1978. Observations on a captive Mona Island Boa, Epicrates monensis monensis Zenneck Bull. Maryland Herpetol. Soc., 14(2): 98-99. - get paper here Grant, C. 1932. Notes on the boas of Puerto Rico and Mona. J. Dept. Agric. Puerto Rico. 16 (3):327-29. Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here MacLean, W.P. 1982. Reptiles and amphibians of the Virgin Islands. MacMillan Caribbean, London: vii + 54 pp. Mayer, G.C. & Lazell, J. 1988. Distributional records for reptiles and amphibians from the Puerto Rico Bank. Herpetological Review 19 91): 23-24 - get paper here McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Nellis,D.W.; Norton,,R.L. & MacLean,W.P. 1983. On the biogeography of the Virgin Island Boa, Epicrates monensis granti. Journal of Herpetology 17 (4): 413-417 - get paper here O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here Reynolds, R. Graham and Robert W. Henderson 2018. Boas of the World (Superfamily Booidae): A Checklist With Systematic, Taxonomic, and Conservation Assessments. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Sep 2018, Vol. 162, No. 1: 1-58. - get paper here Reynolds, R.G.; Matthew L. Niemiller; S. Blair Hedges; Alex Dornburg; Alberto R. Puente-Rolón; Liam J. Revell 2013. Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of West Indian boid snakes (Chilabothrus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - get paper here Rodriguez-Robles, Javier A., Tereza Jezkova, Matthew K. Fujita, Peter J. Tolson, Miguel A. Garcia 2015. Genetic divergence and diversity in the Mona and Virgin Islands Boas, Chilabothrus monensis (Epicrates monensis) (Serpentes: Boidae), West Indian snakes of special conservation concern. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 88: 144-153; doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.03.019 - get paper here Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1988. West Indian Amphibian and Reptiles: A Checklist. Milwaukee Publ. Mus. Contr. Biol. Geol. No. 74: 264 pp. - get paper here Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp. Schwartz, A. and Henderson, R.W. 1985. A guide to the identification of the amphibians and reptiles of the West Indies exclusive of Hispaniola. Milwaukee Public Mus., 165 pp. Stejneger, L. 1904. The herpetology of Porto Rico. Rept. United States Natl. Mus. 1902: 549-724. - get paper here Stull, O.G. 1933. Two new subspecies of the family Boidae. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan (267): 1-4. - get paper here Tolson, P.J. 1987. Phylogenetics of the boid snake genus Epicrates and Caribbean vicariance theory. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan (715): 1-68. - get paper here Tolson, P.J. 1989. Breeding the Virgin Islands boa Epicrates monensis granti at the Toledo Zoological Gardens. Int. Zoo Yrbk. 28:163-67. - get paper here Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp. Zenneck, J. 1898. Die Zeichnung der Boiden. Zeitschr. Wiss. Zool. 64:1-384. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.kingsnake.com/westindian/diapsida3.html https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/374578248100113/ http://home.wanadoo.nl/d.vandorp/slangennamen.htm Google images

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