Crowned false boa

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

Crowned false boa
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[2]
  • Scytale coronata (Schneider, 1801)
  • Scytale coronatum (Schneider, 1801)
  • Oxyrhopus coronatus (Schneider, 1801)

Geographic range

P. coronata is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.((Tobago))[2]

Reproduction

P. coronata is oviparous.[2]

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).
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