Overview
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Common Names
Common Names in English:
Mona Boa, Virgin Island Tree Boa, Virgin Islands Boa
Description
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
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- animals
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: October 21, 1999.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Epicrates
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 51 species and subspecies in this genus:
E.angulifer (Cuban Tree Boa) · E.cenchria (Rainbow Boa) · E.cenchria alvarezi (Rainbow Boa) · E.cenchria assisi (Rainbow Boa) · E.cenchria barbouri (Rainbow Boa) · E.cenchria cenchria (Rainbow Boa) · E.cenchria crassus (Rainbow Boa) · E.cenchria gaigei (Rainbow Boa) · E.cenchria hygrophilus (Rainbow Boa) · E.cenchria maurus (Rainbow Boa) · E.cenchria polylepis (Rainbow Boa) · E.cenchris maurus · E.chrysogaster (Turk's Island Boa) · E.chrysogaster chrysogaster · E.chrysogaster relicquus · E.chrysogaster schwartzi · E.crassus · E.cupreus · E.cupreus var. concolor · E.exsul (Abaco Island Boa) · E.fordi · E.fordii (Ford’s Boa) · E.fordii agametus · E.fordii fordii (Ford’s Boa) · E.fordii manototus · E.fordi agametus · E.fordi fordi · E.fordi manototus · E.gracilis (Hispaniola Boa) · E.gracilis gracilis · E.gracilis hapalus · E.hortulana · E.inornatus (Puerto Rican Boa) · E.inornatus inornatus · E.maurus · E.maurus guyanensis · E.maurus maurus · E.monensis (Mona Island Boa) · E.monensis granti (Virgin Island Tree Boa) · E.monensis monensis (Mona Island Boa) · E.sabogae · E.striatus (Haitian Boa) · E.striatus ailurus · E.striatus exagistus · E.striatus fosteri · E.striatus fowleri · E.striatus mccraniei · E.striatus striatus (Haitian Boa) · E.striatus strigilatus · E.striatus warreni · E.subflavus (Jamaican Yellow Boa)
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Further Reading
- Grant (1932) J. Dept. Agr. Porto Rico. 16(3):327-29.
- Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- MacLean (1982) Rept. Amph.Virgin Islands.
- McDiarmid et al. (1999) Snake species of the world, v.1.
- McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. The Herpetologists' League. Washington, D.C., USA. xi + 511. ISBN: 1-893777-01-4.
- Nellis et al. (1983) J. Herpetol. 17 (4): 413-417
- Schwartz & Henderson (1985) Guide id. amph. rept. West Indies.
- Schwartz & Henderson (1991) Amph. Rept. West Indies.
- Stull (1933) Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (267): 1-4.
- Tolson (1987) Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan (715):1-68.
- Tolson (1989) Int. Zoo Yrbk. 28:163-67.
- Zenneck (1898) Zeitschr. Wiss. Zool. 64:1-384.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 3, 2006.
- Tolson, P. 1996. Epicrates monensis ssp. granti. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
- Tolson, P. 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2548127
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-11911
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13519861
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 202183
- IUCN ID: 7829
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Identifier: C02E
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4750
