Boa

Boa

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Booidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Superfamilia: Booidea

Familia: Boidae
Subfamilia: Boinae
Genus: Boa
Species (7): B. atlantica – B. constrictor – B. imperator – B. nebulosa – B. occidentalis – B. orophias – B. sigma

Name

Boa Linnaeus, 1758: 214 [conserved name]

• Typusart: Boa constrictor Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Fitzinger (1843: 24).
• Geschlecht: feminin.
• Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 1045 (1976: 218).

Synonyme

• Constrictor laurenti, 1768: 106 [suppressed name]
  • Typusart: Constrictor formosissimus Laurenti, 1768, by subsequent designation by Forcart (1951: 198).
  • Placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Specific Names in Zoology by Opinion 1045 (1976: 218).

Quellennachweise

Primärliteratur

• 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 Seite dieser Quellenangabe. 
• Laurenti, J.N. 1768. Specimen medicum, exhibens synopsin reptilium emendatam cum experimentis circa venena et antidota reptilium austriacorum, quod authoritate et consensu (In Latin). Joan Thomae: Vienna. 217 pp. BHL Seite dieser Quellenangabe. 
• Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus. Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel: Wien. vi + 106 pp. BHL Seite dieser Quellenangabe. 
• Forcart, L. 1951. Nomenclature remarks on some generic names of the snake family Boidae. Herpetologica 7(4): 197–199. JSTOR
• 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 Seite dieser Quellenangabe. 

Weitere Literatur

• Henderson, R.W. & Powell, R. 2009. Natural History of West Indian Reptiles and Amphibians. University Press of Florida: Gainesville, Florida. 495 pp. ISBN 9780813033945 Seite dieser Quellenangabe. 
• Hynková, I., Starostová, Z. & Frynta, D. 2009. Mitochondrial DNA Variation Reveals Recent Evolutionary History of Main Boa constrictor Clades. Zoological Science 26(9): 623–631. DOI: 10.2108/zsj.26.623 Seite dieser Quellenangabe. 
• Reynolds, R.G., Niemiller, M.L. & Revell, L.J. 2014. Toward a Tree-of-Life for the boas and pythons: Multilocus species-level phylogeny with unprecedented taxon sampling. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 71: 201–213. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.11.011 Seite dieser Quellenangabe. 
• 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 Seite dieser Quellenangabe. 
• Card, D.C., Schield, D.R., Adams, R.H., Corbin, A.B., Perry, B.W., Andrew, A.L., Pasquesi, G.I.M., Smith, E.N., Jezkova, T., Boback, S.M., Booth, W. & Castoe, T.A. 2016. Phylogeographic and population genetic analyses reveal multiple species of Boa and independent origins of insular dwarfism. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 102: 104–116. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.05.034 Seite dieser Quellenangabe. 
• 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 Seite dieser Quellenangabe. 
• Boundy, J. 2021. Snakes of the World: A Supplement. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 273 pp. ISBN 9781138618138 ebook Seite dieser Quellenangabe. 
• Gonzalez, R.C., Bezerra de Lima, L.C., Passos, P. & Silva, M.J.J. 2024. The good, the bad and the boa: An unexpected new species of a true boa revealed by morphological and molecular evidence. PLoS ONE 19(4): e0298159. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298159 Seite dieser Quellenangabe. 

Weblinks

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Boa . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 3 May 2023.

Trivialnamen

العربية: بواء
Deutsch: Abgottschlange
English: Red-tailed Boas
español: Boas
magyar: Boa
日本語: ボア属
ဘာသာမန်: ကၠန်
Nederlands: Afgodslang
português do Brasil: Jibóias

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