Epicrates (snake)

Epicrates is a genus of non-venomous snakes in the subfamily Boinae of the family Boidae. The genus is native to South America and Central America. Five species are currently recognized as being valid, including the rainbow boa.<ref name="ITIS">Template:ITIS</ref>

Distribution and habitat

Species of Epicrates are found in lower Central America through South America as far south as Argentina.<ref name="McD99"/>

Species

Species<ref name="ITIS"/>	Taxon author<ref name="ITIS"/>	Subspecies*<ref name="ITIS"/>	Common name	Geographic range<ref name="McD99"/>	Image
E. alvarezi	Ábalos, Báez & Nader, 1964	0	Argentinian rainbow boa	northern Argentina, southeastern Bolivia, western Paraguay
E. assisi	Machado, 1945	0	Caatinga rainbow boa	Brazil
E. cenchriaT	(Linnaeus, 1758)	4*	Rainbow boa<ref name="ITIS"/>	French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, and Argentina
E. crassus	(Cope, 1862)	0	Paraguayan rainbow boa	Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil
E. maurus	Gray, 1849	0	Colombian rainbow boa; Brown rainbow boa	Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, northern Brazil, Trinidad, Tobago, Isla Margarita.

• ) Not including the nominate subspecies.

^T) Type species.<ref name="McD99"/>

Etymology

The specific name, alvarezi, is in honor of Argentine herpetologist Antenor Álvarez (1864–1948).<ref>Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. (Epicrates alvarezi, p. 6).</ref>

The specific name, assisi, is in honor of Arlindo de Assis who collected the holotype.<ref>Template:EMBL species www.reptile-database.org.</ref>

External links

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