''Pseudoboa'', the false boas, is a

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snake Snakes are elongated, Limbless vertebrate, limbless, carnivore, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other Squamata, squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping Scale (zoology), scales. Ma ...

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Colubridae Colubridae (, commonly known as colubrids , from la, coluber, 'snake') is a family of snakes. With 249 genera, it is the largest snake family. The earliest species of the family date back to the Oligocene epoch. Colubrid snakes are found on ever ...

. The genus is

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Species

The genus ''Pseudoboa'' contains six

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Pseudoboa coronata The crowned false boa (''Pseudoboa coronata'') is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to South America. Geographic range ''P. coronata'' is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, ...

'' - crowned false boa *''

Pseudoboa haasi ''Pseudoboa haasi'', also known commonly as the Paraná false boa, is a species of snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species is native to Argentina and Brazil. Etymology The specific name, ''haasi'', is in honor Al ...

'' - Paraná false boa *''

Pseudoboa martinsi ''Pseudoboa martinsi'' is a species of snake of the family Colubridae. Geographic range The snake is found in Brazil. It is found in the states of Pará, Amazonas, Roraima and Rondônia Rondônia () is one of the 26 states of Brazil, locate ...

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Pseudoboa neuwiedii ''Pseudoboa neuwiedii'', commonly known as the ''ratonel'' or ''ratonera'' (mouse-eater), is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to northern South America. Geographic range ''Pseudoboa neuwiedii'' is found on th ...

'' - dark-headed red false boa, Neuwied's false boa *''

Pseudoboa nigra ''Pseudoboa nigra'', the black false boa, is a species of snake of the family Colubridae. Geographic range The snake is found in Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, ...

'' - black false boa *''

Pseudoboa serrana ''Pseudoboa serrana'' is a species of snake of the family Colubridae. Geographic range The snake is found in Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South ...

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in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Pseudoboa''.

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