Chilabothrus striatus

Chilabothrus striatus
A captive Chilabothrus striatus in a terrarium
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Boidae
Genus:	Chilabothrus
Species:	C. striatus
Binomial name
Chilabothrus striatus (J.G. Fischer, 1856)
Synonyms [2]
Homalochilus striatus J.G. Fischer, 1856 Epicrates striatus — Steindachner, 1864 Chilabothrus striatus — Reynolds et al., 2013

Chilabothrus striatus, the Hispaniolan boa, is a species of snake in the family Boidae. ^[3] The species is endemic to Hispaniola (split between Haiti and the Dominican Republic). The species is regularly found in the international pet trade. Small individuals eat lizards of the genus Anolis , while larger individuals eat birds and rodents. ^[1]

Subspecies

Close-up of head of Chilabothrus striatus showing vertical pupil characteristic of the genus Chilabothrus

Three subspecies are recognized: ^[4]

• Chilabothrus striatus exagistus Sheplan & Schwartz, 1974 – Tiburon Peninsula boa
• Chilabothrus striatus striatus(J.G. Fischer, 1856) – Hispaniolan or Dominican red mountain boa
• Chilabothrus striatus warreniSheplan & Schwartz, 1974 – Tortuga Island boa
• Chilobothrus striatus fosteri(Thomas Barbour, 1941) – Bimini Boa

Nota bene : A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Chilabothrus.

Etymology

The subspecific name warreni is in honor of C. Rhea Warren who collected herpetological specimens on Île de la Tortue. ^[5]

References

1. Landestoy, M.; Henderson, R.W.; Inchaustegui, S. (2018). "Chilabothrus striatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018 e.T62231A18979323. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T62231A18979323.en . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
2. "Chilabothrus striatus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
3. "Epicrates ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved August 11, 2010.
4. Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Epicrates striatus, pp. 186-186).
5. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp.
   ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. (Epicrates striatus fowleri, p. 93; Epicrates striatus warreni, p. 280).

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families ... Boidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (Epicrates striatus, pp. 96–97).
• Fischer JG (1856). "Neue Schlangen des Hamburgischen Naturhistorischen Museums ". Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften Verein in Hamburg3 (4): 79–116. (Homalochilus striatus, new species, pp. 102–106 + Plate II, Figures 2a & 2b). (in German).
• Sheplan BR, Schwartz A (1974). "Hispaniolan Boas of the genus Epicrates (Serpentes, Boidae) and their Antillean relationships". Annals of Carnegie Museum of Natural History45: 57–143.