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Crowned false boa
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Pseudoboa
Species: P. coronata
Binomial name
Pseudoboa coronata
Schneider, 1801
Synonyms
  • Scytale coronata (Schneider, 1801)
  • Scytale coronatum (Schneider, 1801)
  • Oxyrhopus coronatus (Schneider, 1801)

The crowned false boa (Pseudoboa coronata) is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to South America.

Geographic range

P. coronata is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.((Tobago))

Reproduction

P. coronata is oviparous.

References

  1. Caicedo, J.; Calderón, M.; Cisneros-Heredia, D.F.; Ortega, A.; Gonzales, L.; Nogueira, C.; Schargel, W.; Rivas, G. (2019). "Pseudoboa coronata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T203577A2768885. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ Species Pseudoboa coronata at The Reptile Database

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphae and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Oxyrhopus coronatus, pp. 111–112).
  • Costa, Henrique Caldeira; Cotta, Giselle Agostini; MacCulloch, Ross D. (2015). "New easternmost and southernmost records of Pseudoboa coronata Schneider, 1801 (Serpentes: Dipsadidae: Pseudoboini), with a distribution map". Check List 11 (3): Article 1624, pp. 1–7.
  • Schneider JG (1801). Historiae Amphibiorum naturalis et literariae Fasciculus Secundus continens Crocodilos, Scincos, Chamaesaurus, Boas, Pseudoboas, Elaps, Angues, Amphisbaenas et Caecilias. Jena: F. Frommann. vi + 374 pp. + Plates I-II. (Pseudoboa coronata, new species, p. 286). (in Latin, with some French in Addenda).
Taxon identifiers
Pseudoboa coronata


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