The Boinae are a purported subfamily of boas found in Central and South America, as well as the West Indies.[1] In the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), Boinae is considered an invalid synonym of Boidae.[2]
| Boinae Temporal range: Paleocene to recent
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| Boa constrictor (Boa constrictor) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Boidae |
| Subfamily: | Boinae Gray, 1825 |
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Genera edit
| Subfamily Boinae -- 5 genera | |||||
| Genus | Taxon author | Species | Subsp.* | Common name | Geographic range[1] |
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| †Bavarioboa | Szyndlar and Schleich, 1993 | 1 | 0 | Asian boas | Europe and Asia, no specific date is know for the formation, biocorelation L.Oligcente to E. Miocene[3] |
| BoaT | Linnaeus, 1758 | 5 | 4 | red-tailed boas | Mexico, Central America and South America |
| Chilabothrus | Duméril & Bibron, 1844 | 14 | 4 | West Indian boas or Greater Antillean boas | the West Indies |
| Corallus | Daudin, 1803 | 9 | 1 | neotropical tree boas | Central America, South America and the West Indies: in Central America, they occur in Honduras, eastern Guatemala through Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Their range in South America includes Pacific Colombia and Ecuador, as well as the Amazon Basin from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Bolivia through Brazil to Venezuela, Isla Margarita, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. In the West Indies, they are found on St. Vincent, the Grenadines (Bequia Island, Ile Quatre, Baliceaux, Mustique, Canouan, Maryeau, Union Island, Petit Martinique and Carriacou), Grenada, and the Windward Islands (the Lesser Antilles). |
| Epicrates | Wagler, 1830 | 5 | 4 | rainbow boas | Lower Central America through South America as far south as Argentina |
| Eunectes | Wagler, 1830 | 4 | 0 | anacondas | tropical South America from Colombia and Venezuela south to Argentina |
| †Titanoboa | Head et al., 2009 | 1 | 0 | n/a | Fossils of 28 individuals were found in the Cerrejón Formation in Colombia, dating back to the Paleocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period, 60-58 mya. |
- ) Not including the nominate subspecies.
T) Type genus.[1]
Taxonomy edit
The genera Acrantophis and Sanzinia were erroneously synonymized with the genus Boa by Kluge in 1991.[4] These have now been transferred to the resurrected subfamily Sanziniinae.[5][6] The genus Candoia has similarly been transferred to its own subfamily, Candoiinae.[6]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c d McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference Vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
- ^ "Boinae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
- ^ Hoşgör, Dr İzzet. "Bavarioboa sp. (Serpentes, Boidae) from the Oligocene / Miocene of eastern Turkey with comments on connections between European and Asiatic snake faunas".
- ^ Kluge, A.G. (1991). "Boine Snake Phylogeny and Research Cycles". Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Zoology, Univ. Of Michigan. 178.
- ^ Reynolds, R.G.; Niemiller, M.L.; Revell, L.J. (2014). "Toward a Tree-of-Life for the boas and pythons: Multilocus species-level phylogeny with unprecedented taxon sampling". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 71: 201–213. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.11.011. PMID 24315866.
- ^ a b Pyron, R.A.; Burbrink, F.T.; Wiens, J.J. (2013). "A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13 (1): 1–53. Bibcode:2013BMCEE..13...93P. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-93. PMC 3682911. PMID 23627680.
Further reading edit
- Kluge AG. 1991. Boine Snake Phylogeny and Research Cycles. Misc. Pub. Museum of Zoology, Univ. of Michigan No. 178. PDF at University of Michigan Library. Accessed 8 July 2008.
External links edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Boinae.
- Boinae at ZipcodeZoo.com. Accessed 14 July 2008.
- Ernest Ingersoll (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.