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Boa constrictor (Boa Constrictor)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The boa constrictor (Boa constrictor), also called red-tailed boa, is a species of large, heavy-bodied snake. It is a member of the family Boidae found in North, Central, and South America, as well as some islands in the Caribbean. A staple of private collections and public displays, its color pattern is highly variable yet distinctive. Ten subspecies are currently recognized, although some of these are controversial. This article focuses on the species Boa constrictor as a whole, but also specifically on the nominate subspecies B. c. constrictor.
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Infraspecies

Boa constrictor constrictor (Boa constrictor)
Boa constrictor longicauda
Boa constrictor mexicana (Mexican boa constrictor)
Boa constrictor occidentalis (Argentine boa)
Boa constrictor ortonii (Red-tailed boa)
Boa constrictor sabogae

Attributes

Gestation [2]  4 months 5 days
Litter Size [2]  35
Litters / Year [3]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  40 years
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  5.74 feet (175 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Rivers and Streams
Adult Weight [2]  7.787 lbs (3.532 kg)
Diet [1]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [2]  3 years
Male Maturity [2]  3 years
Habitat Substrate [1]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Ameiva ameiva (Giant Ameiva, Amazon Racerunner)[4]
Artibeus jamaicensis (Jamaican fruit-eating bat)[5]
Cuniculus paca (Paca)[6]
Volatinia jacarina (Blue-black Grassquit)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Buteogallus urubitinga (Great Black-Hawk)[7]
Chrysocyon brachyurus (Maned Wolf)[8]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Bothridium obovatum[9]
Crepidobothrium gerrardii[9]
Crepidobothrium lachesidis[9]
Filaria mucronata <Unverified Name>[9]
Kalicephalus subalatus <Unverified Name>[9]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Ha&#769;bitos alimentares de serpentes em Espiga&#771;o do Oeste, Rondo&#770;nia, Brasil, Paulo Sérgio Bernarde & Augusto Shinya Abe, Biota Neotrop., vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 167-173 (2010)
♦ 5Artibeus jamaicensis, Jorge Ortega and Iván Castro-Arellano, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 662, pp. 1–9 (2001)
♦ 6Agouti paca, Elizabeth M. Pérez, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 404, pp. 1-7 (1992)
♦ 7del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0