Crowned false boa

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| image = Pseudoboa coronata - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ11900159.png

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author1=Caicedo, J. |author2=Calderón, M. |author3=Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. |author4=Ortega, A. |author5=Gonzales, L. |author6=Nogueira, C. |author7=Schargel, W. |author8=Rivas, G. |date=2019 |title=Pseudoboa coronata |volume=2019 |page=e.T203577A2768885 |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/203577/2768885 |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| genus = Pseudoboa

| species = coronata

| authority = Schneider, 1801

| synonyms = *Scytale coronata (Schneider, 1801)

  • Scytale coronatum (Schneider, 1801)
  • Oxyrhopus coronatus (Schneider, 1801)

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The crowned false boa (Pseudoboa coronata) is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to South America.

Geographic range

P. coronata is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.{{EMBL species|genus=Pseudoboa|species=coronata}}

Reproduction

P. coronata is oviparous.

References

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Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphae and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Oxyrhopus coronatus, pp. 111–112).
  • Costa, Henrique Caldeira; Cotta, Giselle Agostini; MacCulloch, Ross D. (2015). "New easternmost and southernmost records of Pseudoboa coronata Schneider, 1801 (Serpentes: Dipsadidae: Pseudoboini), with a distribution map". Check List 11 (3): Article 1624, pp. 1–7.
  • Schneider JG (1801). Historiae Amphibiorum naturalis et literariae Fasciculus Secundus continens Crocodilos, Scincos, Chamaesaurus, Boas, Pseudoboas, Elaps, Angues, Amphisbaenas et Caecilias. Jena: F. Frommann. vi + 374 pp. + Plates I-II. (Pseudoboa coronata, new species, p. 286). (in Latin, with some French in Addenda).

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Category:Pseudoboa

Category:Fauna of the Amazon

Category:Reptiles of Bolivia

Category:Snakes of Brazil

Category:Reptiles of Colombia

Category:Reptiles of Ecuador

Category:Reptiles of French Guiana

Category:Reptiles of Guyana

Category:Reptiles of Peru

Category:Reptiles of Suriname

Category:Reptiles of Venezuela

Category:Reptiles described in 1801

Category:Taxa named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider

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