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Pseudoboa nigra (Black False Boa)

Synonyms: Pseudoboa albomaculata; Scytale neuwiedii nigrum; Scytale neuwiedii var. nigrum (heterotypic)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  211 grams

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Reserve de Biosphere Cerrado Biosphere Reserve II 1812 Parana, Brazil  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Cerrado Brazil No

Prey / Diet

Ameiva ameiva (Giant Ameiva, Amazon Racerunner)[2]
Strobilurus torquatus (Amazon Lava Lizard)[2]
Tropidurus hispidus (Peters' Lava Lizard)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Boa constrictor (Boa Constrictor)1
Drymarchon margaritae (Indigo Snake)1
Galictis vittata (Greater Grison)1
Mastigodryas boddaerti (Boddaert's Tropical Racer)1
Oxyrhopus vanidicus (Tschudi's False Coral Snake)1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 2Reproductive biology and food habits of Pseudoboa nigra (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from the Brazilian cerrado, Renata de Paula Orofino, Lígia Pizzatto and Otavio A. V. Marques, Phyllomedusa 9(1):53-61, 2010
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
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