Boinae

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Boinae
Temporal range: Paleocene to recent
Red-tailed boa (Boa constrictor constrictor) Rio Napo.jpg
Boa constrictor ( Boa constrictor )
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Boidae
Subfamily: Boinae
Gray, 1825
Synonyms
  • Boina - Gray, 1825
  • Aproterodontes - A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844
  • Boaeides - A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844
  • Boinae - Boulenger, 1890 [1]

The Boinae are a purported subfamily of boas found in Central and South America, as well as the West Indies. [1] In the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), Boinae is considered an invalid synonym of Boidae. [2]

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Genera

Subfamily Boinae -- 5 genera
GenusTaxon authorSpeciesSubsp.*Common nameGeographic range [1]
† Bavarioboa Szyndlar and Schleich, 199310Asian boasEurope and Asia, no specific date is known for the formation, biocorelation L.Oligcente to E. Miocene [3]
Boa T Linnaeus, 1758 54red-tailed boasMexico, Central America and South America
Chilabothrus Duméril & Bibron, 1844144West Indian boas or Greater Antillean boasthe West Indies
Corallus Daudin, 180391neotropical tree boasCentral America, South America and the West Indies: in Central America, they occur in Honduras, eastern Guatemala through Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Their range in South America includes Pacific Colombia and Ecuador, as well as the Amazon Basin from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Bolivia through Brazil to Venezuela, Isla Margarita, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. In the West Indies, they are found on St. Vincent, the Grenadines (Bequia Island, Ile Quatre, Baliceaux, Mustique, Canouan, Maryeau, Union Island, Petit Martinique and Carriacou), Grenada, and the Windward Islands (the Lesser Antilles).
Epicrates Wagler, 183054rainbow boasLower Central America through South America as far south as Argentina
Eunectes Wagler, 183040anacondastropical South America from Colombia and Venezuela south to Argentina
† Titanoboa Head et al., 200910n/aFossils of 28 individuals were found in the Cerrejón Formation in Colombia, dating back to the Paleocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period, 60-58 mya.

T) Type genus. [1]

Taxonomy

The genera Acrantophis and Sanzinia were erroneously synonymized with the genus Boa by Kluge in 1991. [4] These have now been transferred to the resurrected subfamily Sanziniinae. [5] [6] The genus Candoia has similarly been transferred to its own subfamily, Candoiinae. [6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference Vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN   1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN   1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  2. ↑ "Boinae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  3. ↑ Hoşgör, Dr İzzet. "Bavarioboa sp. (Serpentes, Boidae) from the Oligocene / Miocene of eastern Turkey with comments on connections between European and Asiatic snake faunas".
  4. ↑ Kluge, A.G. (1991). "Boine Snake Phylogeny and Research Cycles". Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Zoology, Univ. Of Michigan. 178.
  5. ↑ Reynolds, R.G.; Niemiller, M.L.; Revell, L.J. (2014). "Toward a Tree-of-Life for the boas and pythons: Multilocus species-level phylogeny with unprecedented taxon sampling". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 71: 201–213. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.11.011. PMID   24315866.
  6. 1 2 Pyron, R.A.; Burbrink, F.T.; Wiens, J.J. (2013). "A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13 (1): 1–53. Bibcode:2013BMCEE..13...93P. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-93 . PMC   3682911 . PMID   23627680.

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