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Trachyboa gularis

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Trachyboa gularis

Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Tropidophiidae
Genus: Trachyboa
Species:
T. gularis
Binomial name
Trachyboa gularis
W. Peters, 1860

Trachyboa gularis, commonly known as the Ecuadorian eyelash boa, is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Tropidophiidae.[2] It is endemic to Ecuador, and is only known from an area where suitable habitat has been almost completely destroyed. Recent confirmed records are also lacking, and the IUCN has concluded that Trachyboa gularis is a possibly extinct species.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Arteaga-Navarro, A.; Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. (2021). "Trachyboa gularis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T203215A2762372. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T203215A2762372.en. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
  2. ^ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).

Further reading

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  • Boulenger GA. 1893. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families ... Boidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (Trachyboa gularis, pp. 109–110).
  • Freiberg M. 1982. Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. ISBN 0-87666-912-7. (Trachyboa gularis, p. 88).
  • Jan G. 1861. Iconographie générale des Ophidiens. Deuxième livraison. Paris: Baillière. Index + Plates I-VI. (Trachyboa gularis, Plate II, Figure 3).
  • Peters W. 1860. "Eine neue Gattung von Riesenschlangen vor, welche von einem gebornen Preussen, Hrn. Carl Reiss, in Guayaquil nebst mehreren andern werthvollen Naturalien dem zoologischen Museum zugesandt worden ist ". Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1860: 200–202. (Trachyboa gularis, new species). (in German).