Corallus batesii
| Amazon Basin emerald tree boa | |
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| Species: | C. batesii
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| Corallus batesii (Gray, 1860)
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Corallus batesii, or Amazon Basin emerald tree boa, is a species of boa found in the tropical rainforests of South America. This species has been revalidated from the synonymy with Corallus caninus by Henderson and collagues in 2009.[2][3]
Description
Amazon Basin emerald boas have a yellow belly with a body color that is generally darker green with a dorsal stripe, often bordered by some black spots with enamel-white markings on the dorsum. It differs from Corallus caninus by the shape and the number of scales across snout; bigger than C. caninus, they grow to about 8 feet approaching 9 feet in length.[4]
Geographic range
The 'Basin' species', as the name suggests, is only found along the basin of the Amazon River, in southern Suriname, southern Venezuela to Colombia, Peru and Brazil and in the surrounding jungles of the Amazon River.[5]
Etymology
The specific or subspecific name, batesii, is in honor of Henry Walter Bates, an English naturalist and explorer, for whom Batesian mimicry is also named.[6]
Original Publication
- Gray, 1860 : Description of a new genus of Boidae discovered by Mr. Bates on the Upper Amazon. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Template:Ser., vol. 6, p. 131-132 (original text).
References
- ^ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
- ^ Corallus batesii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 30 July 2016.
- ^ "Corallus batesii". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
- ^ Henderson, Robert W.; Pauers, Michael J.; Colston, Timothy J. (2013). "On the congruence of morphology, trophic ecology, and phylogeny in Neotropical treeboas (Squamata: Boidae:Corallus)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 109 (2): 466–475. doi:10.1111/bij.12052.
- ^ Bernarde P.S , ALbuquerque,S.Barros, T.0,& Turci, L.C.B. 2012. Serpentes do Estado de Rondônia, Brasil. Biota neotrop. 12(3):1-29.
- ^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Corallus batesii, p. 19).
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