Chilabothrus subflavus (STEJNEGER, 1901)

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Higher Taxa	Boidae (Boinae), Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Jamaican Boa, Jamaican (Yellow) Boa G: Jamaika-Boa
Synonym	Epicrates subflavus STEJNEGER 1901: 469 (substitute name for Epicrates inornatus REINHARDT (part)) Chilabothrus subflavus — BARBOUR 1910: 300 Epicrates subflavus — GRANT 1940: 116 Epicrates subflavus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 611 Epicrates subflavus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 199 Chilabothrus subflavus — REYNOLDS et al. 2013 Epicrates subflavus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 274 Chilabothrus subflavus — REYNOLDS & HENDERSON 2018: 15 Chilabothrus subflavus — REYNOLDS et al. 2023
Distribution	Jamaica, Goat I Type locality: Jamaica.
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Holotype: USNM 14507, unsexed adult
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Comment	For illustrations see Schwartz and Henderson, 1985; Mehrtens, 1987; Tolson, 1987. Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).
Etymology	Named after Latin sub- (= below) and flavus (= yellow), presumably a reference to the color of the venter, which fades from orange to yellow in preservative.
References	Barbour, T. 1910. Notes on the herpetology of Jamaica. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 52: 273—301 - get paper here Grant, C. 1940. The herpetology of Jamaica Il. The reptiles. Bull. Inst. Jamaica., Sci. Ser. 1: 61-148. 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 McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Mehrtens, J.M. 1987. Living snakes of the world in color. Sterling Publ. Co., hic., New York, NY: 480 pp. Newman, B. C., S. E. Henke, and R. L. Powell. 2023. Chilabothrus subflavus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 931 - get paper here Newman, Brent C.; Scott E. Henke, Randy L. Powell, and D. Craig Rudolph 2020. Review of the Jamaican Boa (Chilabothrus subflavus): Biology, Ecology, and Conservation Management of a Vulnerable Species. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 15 (2): - get paper here Newman, Brent C.; Scott E. Henke, Susan E. Koenig and Randy L. Powell 2016. Distribution and General Habitat Use Analysis of the Jamaican Boa (Chilabothrus subflavus). South American J. Herp. 11 (3): 228–234 - get paper here Oliver, W.L.R. 1982. The coney and the yellow snake: the distribution and status of the Jamaican hutia Geocapromys browni and the Jamaican boa Epicrates subflavus. Dodo: J. Jersey Wildl. Preserv. Trust 19:6-33. 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 REYNOLDS, ROBERT GRAHAM; ROBERT W. HENDERSON, LUIS M. DÍAZ, TOMÁS M. RODRÍGUEZ-CABRERA AND ALBERTO R. PUENTE-ROLÓN 2023. Boas of the West Indies. Comstock Publishing / Cornell U Press - get paper here Schulz, Michaela & Marco Schulz 2010. Paarungsauslöser bei Riesenschlangen. Draco 11 (44): 18-22 - 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. SMITH, DWAYNE; CALVIN H. SCHAEFER & JUSTIN ELDEN. 2021. CHILABOTHRUS SUBFLAVUS (Jamaican Boa). MALE COMBAT and REPRODUCTION. Herpetological Review 52 (3): 660. - get paper here Stejneger, L. 1901. A new systematic name for the yellow boa of Jamaica. Proc. US Natl. Mus. 23: 469-470. - 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 Tzika, A.C. et al. 2008. Population structure of an endemic vulnerable species, the Jamaican boa (Epicrates subflavus). Molecular Ecology 17: 533–544 - 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. Wilson, B.S. & Vogel, P. 2000. A survey of the herpetofauna of the Hellshire Hills, Jamaica, including the rediscovery of the Blue-tailed Galliwasp (Celestus duquesneyi Grant). Carib. J. Sci. 36: 244-249
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.kingsnake.com/westindian/diapsida3.html http://www.lanevol.org/LANE/jamboa.html Google images

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