Corallus cropanii (HOGE, 1953)

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Higher Taxa	Boidae (Boinae), Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	Portuguese: Boa-de-Cropani, Boa-de-Cropan, Jiboia-do-Ribeira, Jiboia-Dourada
Synonym	Xenoboa cropanii HOGE 1953: 27 Xenoboa cropanii — STIMSON 1969 Xenoboa cropanii — KLUGE 1991: 16 Corallus cropanii — KLUGE 1991: 47 Corallus cropanii — HENDERSON 1997 Corallus cropanii — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 191 Corallus cropanii — GOWER et al. 2012: 62 Corallus cropanii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 183 Corallus cropanii — REYNOLDS & HENDERSON 2018: 18 Corallus cropanii — NOGUEIRA et al. 2019
Distribution	Brazil (Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais) Type locality: Miracatu, State of São Paulo, Brazil
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Holotype: IBSP (= IB) 15.200 (Instituto Butantan), adult male
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Comment	One of the rarest boas in the world with only three specimens in scientific collections (Henderson 1997). Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).
Etymology	Named after Ottorino de Fiori, Baron de Cropani, an Italian who became Professor of Geology and Paleontology, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil (1935). After 1953 he became Director, Instituto Vulcanologico, Catania, Sicily.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Biswas, A., Ghosh, A., & Agashe, M. 2025. In ‘hot’pursuit: exploring the evolutionary ecology of labial pits in boas and pythons. Proceedings B, 292(2045), 20250199 - get paper here Bressan, Paulo Magalhães; Maria Cecília Martins Kierulﬀ, Angélica Midori Sugieda (eds.) 2009. FAUNA AMEAÇADA DE EXTINÇÃO NO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO: VERTEBRADOS. São Paulo: Fundação Parque Zoológico de São Paulo: Secretaria do Meio Ambiente, 2009. - get paper here Fiorillo BF, Silva BR, Menezes FA, Marques OAV, Martins M 2020. Composition and Natural History of Snakes from Etá Farm region, Sete Barras, south-eastern Brazil. ZooKeys 931: 115-153 - get paper here Gonzalez R. C. et al. 2020. Lista dos Nomes Populares dos Répteis no Brasil – Primeira Versão. Herpetologia Brasileira 9 (2): 121 – 214 - get paper here Gower, D.; Garrett, K. & Stafford, P. 2012. Snakes. Firefly Books, Buffalo, NY,<br />144 p.. 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 Henderson R W 1993. Corallus Daudin. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 572: 1-2 - get paper here Henderson R W; Puorto G 1993. Corallus cropanii (Hoge). Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 575: 1-2 - get paper here Henderson, R. W. 2015. Neotropical Treeboas - Natural History of the Corallus hortulanus Complex. Edition Chimaira. ISBN 9783899734386. 338 pp. Henderson, Robert W. and Michael J. Pauers 2012. On the Diets of Neotropical Treeboas (Squamata: Boidae: Corallus). South American J. Herp. 7 (2): 172-180. - get paper here Henderson, Robert W.; Michael J. Pauers and Timothy J. Colston 2013. On the congruence of morphology, trophic ecology, and phylogeny in Neotropical treeboas (Squamata: Boidae: Corallus). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 109: 466–475. doi: 10.1111/bij.12052 - get paper here Henderson,R.W. 1997. An irascible aerialist - The common tree boa of the American tropics. Fauna 1 (1): 17-25 Hoge, A. R. 1953. A new genus and species of Boinae from Brazil, Xenoboa cropanii, gen. nov., sp. nov. Mem. Inst. Butantan 25: 27-31 + 1 plate - get paper here Kluge, A.G. 1991. Boine snake phylogeny and research cycles. Publ. Mus Zool Univ Michigan 178: 1-58 - get paper here Machado-Filho, P.R.; Duarte, M.R.; Do Carmo L.F. & Franco, F.L. 2011. New record of Corallus cropanii (Boidae, Boinae): a rare snake from the Vale do Ribeira, State of São Paulo, Brazil. Salamandra 47 (2): 112-115 - get paper here MARQUES, O. A. V. et al. 2009. Repteis. In: Bressan et al., FAUNA AMEAÇADA DE EXTINÇÃO NO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO: VERTEBRADOS. São Paulo: Fundação Parque Zoológico de São Paulo: Secretaria do Meio Ambiente, pp. 285-327 - 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. Nogueira, Cristiano C.; Antonio J.S. Argôlo, Vanesa Arzamendia, Josué A. Azevedo, Fausto E. Barbo, Renato S. Bérnils, Bruna E. Bolochio, Marcio Borges-Martins, Marcela Brasil-Godinho, Henrique Braz, Marcus A. Buononato, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, 2019. Atlas of Brazilian snakes: verified point-locality maps to mitigate the Wallacean shortfall in a megadiverse snake fauna. South American J. Herp. 14 (Special Issue 1):1-274 - 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 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. Zaher, Hussam; Fausto Erritto BarboI; Paola Sanchez Martínez; Cristiano Nogueira; Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues; Ricardo Jannini Sawaya 2011. Répteis do Estado de São Paulo: conhecimento atual e perspectivas. Biota Neotropica, 11 (1): 1–15. - get paper here
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