Epicrates maurus

Epicrates maurus

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 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: Epicrates
Species: Epicrates maurus

Name

Epicrates maurus Gray, 1849: 96

• Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.10.40 (formerly BMNH VI.6.3a & BMNH 1846.7.23.2a), ♂, collected by D. Dyson in 1846.
• Type locality: “Venezuela”.

Synonyms

• Cliftia fusca Gray, 1849
• Epicarsius cupreus Fischer, 1856
• Epicrates cupreus var. concolor Jan 1863
• Epicrates cenchria barbouri Stull, 1938
• Epicrates maurus colombianus Matz, 2004
• Epicrates maurus guayanensis Matz, 2004

References

Primary references

• Gray, J.E. 1849. Catalogue of the specimens of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Edward Newman: London. i–xv + 1–125. BHL Reference page. 
• Matz, G. 2004. Epicrates maurus Gray, 1849. Description des sous-espèces. Situla 10: 2–9.

Additional references

• Starace, Fausto 1998. Guide des Serpents et Amphisbènes de Guyane. IBIS Rouge Editions: Guadeloupe, Guyane. 450 pp.
• Passos, P. & Fernandes, R. 2008. Revision of the Epicrates cenchria Complex (Serpentes: Boidae). Herpetological Monographs 22(1): 1–30. DOI: 10.1655/06-003.1 Reference page. 

Links

• Acosta Chaves, V., Ballesteros, E., Batista, A., García Rodríguez, A., Ines Hladki, A., Ramírez Pinilla, M., Renjifo, J., Saborío, G., Urbina, N., Vargas Álvarez, J., Nogueira, C. de C., Hoogmoed, M.S., Schargel, W., Rivas, G. & Murphy, J. 2018. IUCN: Epicrates maurus  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T203212A2762292. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T203212A2762292.en. Accessed on 26 February 2026.

Vernacular names

• English: Brown Rainbow Boa