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Tropidophis boulengeri PERACCA, 1910

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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 
DistributionPanama, Ecuador, Colombia (incl. Valle del Cauca)

Type locality: unknown fide STIMSON 1969 [”località ignota”]  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesHolotype: MZN (also as UNZM) 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (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). 
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
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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.
  • 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
 
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