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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Dumeril's Boa
Common Names in German:
Dumerils Madagaskarboa
Description
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Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial
Taxonomy
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- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Class:
Reptilia
()
- Reptiles
- Order:
Squamata
()
- Family:
Boidae (Boinae)
()
- Subfamily:
Boinae
()
- Genus:
Acrantophis
()
- (Duméril & Bibron, 1844)
- Specific name:
dumerili
- Jan
- Scientific name: - Acrantophis dumerili Jan
- Specific name:
dumerili
- Jan
- Genus:
Acrantophis
(
- Subfamily:
Boinae
(
- Family:
Boidae (Boinae)
(
- Order:
Squamata
(
- Class:
Reptilia
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Acrantophis dumerili — Glaw & Vences 1994: 327
- Acrantophis dumerili — Kluge 1991: 8
- Acrantophis dumerili — Stimson 1969
- Acrantophis dumerili — Vences Et Al. 2001
- Acrantophis madagascariensis dumerili Stull 1935: 405
- Boa dumerili Boulenger 1893: 120
- Boa dumerili - Kluge 1991:48
- Boa dumerili — Mcdiarmid, Campbell & TourÉ 1999: 185
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Uetz P.
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Acrantophis
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. dumerili (Dumeril's Boa) · A. madagascariensis (Madagascar Ground Boa) · A. madagascariensis madagascariensis
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Further Reading
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- Boulenger (1893) Catalogue of the snakes,Vol. I.
- Glaw & Vences (1994) Fieldguide Amph and Rept. Madagascar.
- Glaw et al. (2004) Draco 5 (19): 37-43
- Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- Huff (1984) Acta Zool. Pathol. Antverpiensia 78: 255-270
- Interessengemeinschaft (2000) Elaphe 8 (4): 65-70
- IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- Jan (1860) Iconogr. gén. Ophid., 1 (1. livr.): 1
- Kluge (1991) Publs Mus Zool Univ Michigan 178: 1-58
- McDiarmid et al. (1999) Snake species of the world, v.1.
- McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. The Herpetologists' League. Washington, D.C., USA. xi + 511. ISBN: 1-893777-01-4.
- Stull (1935) Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 40: 387—408.
- Van (2004) Lacerta 62 (3): 92-103
- VENCES et al. (2001) Copeia 2001 (4): 1151-1154
- Vences et al. (2004) Salamandra 39 (3/4): 181-206
- Wengler (1996) Reptilia (Münster) 1 (1): 46-48
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 10, 2006.
- Madagascar Reptile & Amphibian Specialist Group 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2535806
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-473
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 634787
- IUCN ID: 282
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 610660
