Boa

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Booidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Superfamilia: Booidea

Familia: Boidae
Subfamilia: Boinae
Genus: Boa
Species (5): B. constrictor – B. imperator – B. nebulosa – 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., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2026. Boa . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 26 May 2025.

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