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''Trachyboa'' is a
genus
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of
nonvenomous
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dwarf boas
endemic
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to
Central
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and
South America
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. They are largely
terrestrial
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, fish-eating snakes that inhabit tropical lowlands. Two
species
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are recognized.
Distribution and habitat
Species
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of ''Trachyboa'' are found in
Central
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Central may also refer to:
Directions and generalised locations
* Central Africa, a region in the centre of Africa continent, also known as ...
and
South America
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in
Panama
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, Pacific
Colombia
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, and
Ecuador
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.
Species
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Type species
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.
References
Further reading
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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. (Genus ''Trachyboa'', p. 109).
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Freiberg M (1982). ''Snakes of South America''. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. . (Genus ''Trachyboa'', p. 88).
*
Goin CJ,
Goin OB,
Zug GR (1978). ''Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition''. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. . (Genus ''Trachyboa'', p. 320).
*
Peters W (1860). "''Eine neue Gattung von Riesenschlangen vor, welche von einem gebornen Preussen, Hrn. Carl Reiss, in Guayaquil nebst mehreren andern werthvollen Naturalien dem zoologischen Museum zugesandt worden ist'' ". ''Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin'' 1860: 200-202. (''Trachyboa'', new genus, p. 200). (in
German
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).
External links
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Tropidophiidae
Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters
Snake genera