Corallus ruschenbergerii

Corallus ruschenbergerii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Booidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa 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 Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Superfamilia: Booidea

Familia: Boidae
Subfamilia: Boinae
Genus: Corallus
Species: Corallus ruschenbergerii

Name

Corallus ruschenbergerii (Cope, 1876)

• Holotype: ANSP 10325, adult ♀, collected by W.S.W. Ruschenberger.
• Type locality: “Panama”.

Combinations

• Xiphosoma ruschenbergerii Cope, 1876: 129 [original combination]
• Xiphosoma ruschenbergii — Boulenger, 1893: 99 [incorrect subsequent spelling]
• Corallus cookei var. ruschenbergi — Boettger, 1898: 10 [subsequent combination, incorrect subsequent spelling]
• Boa ruschenbergii — Stejneger, 1902: 184 [subsequent combination, incorrect subsequent spelling]
• Corallus ruschenbergerii — Henderson, 1997: 212 [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

• Boa salmonidia Briceño Rossi 1934: 1141
  • Holotype: Unknwon.
  • Type locality: “Frontera con Colombia en el Río de Oro, y Distrito Colón del Edo Zulia”.

Native distribution areas

• Costa Rica;
• Panama, including the offshore islands of Isla del Rey, Isla Contadora, Isla de Cébaco and Isla Suscantupu;
• Colombia;
• Venezuela, including Isla Margarita;
• Trinidad and Tobago.

References

Primary references

• Cope, E.D. [1875] 1876. On the Batrachia and Reptilia of Costa Rica with notes on the herpetology and ichthyology of Nicaragua and Peru. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Series 2 8: 93–154. BHL
• Briceño Rossi, A.L. 1934. El problema del ofidismo en Venezuela. Bol. Minist. Salubr. Agric. Cria, Venezuela Año II [Vol. 1](14): 1079–1177.
• Henderson, R.W. 1997. A taxonomic review of the Corallus hortulanus complex of Neotropical tree boas. Caribbean Journal of Science 33(3-4): 198–221. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Colston, T.J., Grazziotin, F.G., Shepard, D.B., Vitt, L.J., Colli, G.R., Henderson, R.W., Hedges, S.B., Bonatto, S.L., Zaher, H., Noonan, B.P. & Burbrink, F.T. 2013. Molecular systematics and historical biogeography of tree boas (Corallus spp.). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66(3): 953–959. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.11.027 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. 

Links

• Acosta Chaves, V., Ballesteros, E., Batista, A., García Rodríguez, A., Ines Hladki, A., Köhler, G., Ramírez Pinilla, M., Renjifo, J., Saborío, G., Urbina, N., Vargas Álvarez, J., Schargel, W., Rivas, G. & Murphy, J. 2016. IUCN: Corallus ruschenbergerii  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T203211A2762201. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T203211A2762201.en. Accessed on 14 November 2025.

Vernacular names

• English: Mangrove Treeboa