Boa constrictor

Familia: Boidae
Subfamilia: Boinae
Genus: Boa
Species:
Subspecies (5): B. c. atlantica – B. c. constrictor – B. c. longicauda – B. c. occidentalis – B. c. ortonii

Boa constrictor Linnaeus, 1758: 215 [conserved name]

• Syntypes: NRM 10 and 20001.
• Type locality: “Indiis”.
• Placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology by Opinion 1045 (1976: 218).

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page. 
• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1976. Opinion 1045. Boa Linnaeus, 1758 (Reptilia: Serpentes): placed on the Official List. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 32(4): 218–221. BHL Reference page. 

• Wallach, V., Williams, K.L. & Boundy, J. 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 1237 pp. ISBN 9781138034006 Reference page. 
• Reynolds, R.G. & Henderson, R.W. 2018. Boas of the World (Superfamily Booidea): A Checklist With Systematic, Taxonomic, and Conservation Assessments. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 162(1): 1–59. DOI: 10.3099/MCZ48.1 Reference page. 
• Boundy, J. 2021. Snakes of the World: A Supplement. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 273 pp. ISBN 9781138618138 ebook Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Boa constrictor. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 3 May 2023.
• Arzamendia, V., Cisneros-Heredia, D.F., Fitzgerald, L., Flores-Villela, O., Gagliardi, G., Giraudo, A., Ines Hladki, A., Köhler, G., Lee, J., Nogueira, C. de C., Ramírez Pinilla, M., Renjifo, J., Scrocchi, G., Urbina, N., Williams, J., Wilson, L.D. & Murphy, J. 2021. IUCN: Boa constrictor  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T197462A2486405. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T197462A2486405.en. Accessed on 03 May 2023.

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