Crowned false boa

Crowned false boa
Scientific 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
Pseudoboa coronata Schneider, 1801 Scytale coronata — Wied, 1824 Scytale coronatum — A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 Oxyrhopus coronatus — Boulenger, 1896 Pseudoboa coronata — Beebe, 1946

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.

Reproduction

P. coronata is oviparous.

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).