Corallus cookii

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Corallus cookii
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Cook's Tree Boa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Boidae
Genus: Corallus
Species:
C. cookii
Binomial name
Corallus cookii
Gray, 1842
Synonyms [2]
  • Corallus Cookii
    Gray, 1842
  • Corallus hortulanus Melanea
    Gray, 1849
  • Corallus cookii
    Boulenger, 1893
  • Boa cooki
    Ihering, 1911
  • Boa cooki
    Griffin, 1916
  • Boa enydris cookii
    Stull, 1935
  • Boa cookii
    — Stull, 1935
  • Corallus enydris cookii
    Forcart, 1951
  • Corallus hortulanus cookii
    Roze, 1966
  • Corallus hortulanus cooki
    Stafford & Henderson, 1996
  • Corallus cooki
    — Henderson, 1997

Corallus cookii, also known as Cook's tree boa [3] or Cooke's tree boa, [4] is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Boidae. The species is endemic to the island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean. There are no recognized subspecies. [3]

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Etymology

The specific name, cookii, is in honor of English artist and naturalist Edward William Cooke. [4]

Description

C. cookii is similar to C. hortulana and C. grenadensis , only smaller, with adults reaching a total length (including tail) of 5 feet (152 cm), and being mainly gray or brown in color. Not more than a few specimens exist in captivity. [5]

Reproduction

C. cookii is viviparous. [6]

Geographic range

Endemic to the island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean, C. cookii is known only from a few locations on the island. The type locality given is "West Indies", which was restricted to "St. Vincent" by Henderson (1997). [2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of C. cooki is forest, but it is also abundant in urban areas. It is found from sea level to an altitude of 500 m (1,600 ft). [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Henderson RW, Powell R (2021). "Corallus cookii ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: https://dx.doi.org?10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T203209A2762187.en. Accessed on 05 April 2022.
  2. 1 2 McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (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).
  3. 1 2 "Corallus cookii ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 14 July 2008.
  4. 1 2 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. (Corallus cookii, p. 58).
  5. Stafford PJ, Henderson RW (1996). Kaleidoscopic Tree Boas: The Genus Corallus of Tropical America. Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company. 120 pp. ISBN   0-89464-975-2.
  6. Species Corallus cookii at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.

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