You are here » home › search results › Tropidophis boulengeri

Tropidophis boulengeri (PERACCA, 1910)

iNaturalist logo

Can you confirm these amateur observations of Tropidophis boulengeri?

Add your own observation of
Tropidophis boulengeri »

Find more photos by Google images search: Google images

Higher TaxaTropidophiidae, Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Northern Eyelash Boa
G: Rauhschuppenboa
S: Boa pigmea de Boulenger 
SynonymTrachyboa boulengeri PERACCA 1910
Trachyboa boulengeri — STIMSON 1969: 32
Trachyboa boulengeri — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 215
Trachyboa boulengeri — CARRERA et al. 2009
Trachyboa boulengeri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 735
Tropidophis boulengeri — ZAHER et al. 2024
Trachyboa boulengeri — BERNAL 2025 
DistributionPanama, Ecuador, Colombia (incl. Valle del Cauca)

Type locality: unknown fide STIMSON 1969 [”località ignota”]  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesHolotype: MZN (also as UNZM) 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 3438 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentTypes not traced by ANDREONE & GAVETTI 2007.

Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).

Distribution: not in Colombia fide Bernal (2025). 
EtymologyNamed after George Albert Boulenger (1858-1937), herpetologist at the British Museum of Natural History, London. 
References
  • Andreone, Franco; Gavetti, Elena 2007. The life and herpetological contributions of Mario Giacinto Peracca (1861-1923). [type catalogue] SSAR, 570 pp
  • Arteaga, A.; Bustamante, L.; Vieira, J. 2024. Reptiles of Ecuador. Khamai Foundation & Tropical Herping, 1073 pp. - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Bernal, R. 2025. Serpientes de Colombia-Guía de Campo. Serie de Guías Tropicales de Campo. 19: 396 pp. Conservación Internacional Colombia, Bogotá - get paper here
  • Burger, R.M. 2004. Dwarf boas of the Caribbean. Reptilia (GB) (35): 43-47 - get paper here
  • Carrera, C. et al. 2009. Guía de Campo de los Pequeños Vertebrados del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito (DMQ). Publicación Miscelánea N° 5. Serie de Publicaciones del Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales (MECN) – Fondo Ambiental del MDMQ. 1-89 pp. Imprenta Nuevo Arte. Quito-Ecuador.
  • Carvajal-Cogollo, J.E.; L.E. Rojas-Murcia. & G. Cárdenas-Arévalo 2020. Reptiles del Caribe colombiano/ Reptiles of the Colombian Caribbean. Tunja: Editorial UPTC, 268 pp. - get paper here
  • Castro-Herrera, F. & Vargas-Salinas, F. 2008. Anfibios y reptiles en el departamento del Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Biota Colombiana 9 (2): 251 - 277 - get paper here
  • Dunn, Emmett R. & Bailey, Joseph R. 1939. Snakes from the uplands of the Canal Zone and of Darien. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 86 (1): 1-22 - get paper here
  • Dwyer, Q; Arteaga, A; Barrio-Amorós, C L & Flagle, A 2018. Trachyboa boulengeri Diet. Herpetological Review 49 (2): 359-360 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Lehmann, H. D. 1970. Beobachtungen bei der Haltung und Aufzucht von Trachyboa boulengeri (Serpentes, Boidae). Salamandra 6 (1-2): 32-42 - get paper here
  • Lehmann, H. D. 1974. Trachyboa boulengeri (Serpentes, Boidae) frißt Fische. Salamandra 10 (3-4): 132-133 - 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.
  • O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here
  • Peracca, MARIO GIACINTO 1910. Descrizione di alcune nuove specie di Ofidii del Museo Zoologico della R.a Universita di Napoli. Annuario Mus. zool. Univ. Napoli, (N. S.) 3 (12): 1-3
  • Pérez-Santos, C. E. 1986. Zoogeografía de los Ophidia en Colombia. Univ. Complutense, Madrid, 2 vols., 971 pp.
  • Pérez-Santos,C. & Moreno, A.G. 1988. Ofidios de Colombia. Museo reegionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Monographie VI, 517 pp.
  • Peters , J. A. 1960. The snakes of Ecuador; check list and key. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 122: 489-541 - get paper here
  • Pinto-Erazo, M.A., Calderón-Espinosa, M.L., Medina-Rangel, G.F. & Méndez-Galeano, M.A. 2020. Herpetofauna from two municipalities of southwestern Colombia. Biota Colombiana 21(1): 41-57. DOI: 10.21068/c2020.v21n01a04 - get paper here
  • Torres-Carvajal O, Pazmiño-Otamendi G, Salazar-Valenzuela D. 2019. Reptiles of Ecuador: a resource-rich portal, with a dynamic checklist and photographic guides. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13 (1): [General Section]: 209–229 (e178) - get paper here
  • Valencia-Zuleta A, Jaramillo-Martínez AF, Echeverry-Bocanegra A, Viáfara-Vega R, Hernández-Córdoba O, Cardona-Botero VE, Gutiérrez-Zúñiga J, Castro-Herrera F. 2014. Conservation status of the herpetofauna, protected areas, and current problems in Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 8 (2): 1–18 (e87) - 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.
  • Wiedebusch, M. L., Torres-Carvajal, O., & Rödel, M. O. 2025. First observation of Tropidophis boulengeri mating in the field (Squamata: Serpentes: Tropidophidae). Salamandra 61 (1): 101-107 - get paper here
  • Zaher, H., Trusz, C., Koch, C., Entiauspe-Neto, O. M., Battilana, J., & Grazziotin, F. G. 2024. Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the dwarf boas of the family Tropidophiidae (Serpentes: Alethinophidia). Systematics and Biodiversity, 22(1), 2319289 - get paper here
 
External links  
Is it interesting? Share with others:

As link to this species use URL address:

https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Tropidophis&species=boulengeri

without field 'search_param'. Field 'search_param' is used for browsing search result.



Please submit feedback about this entry to the curator