Boa imperator

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Booidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Superfamilia: Booidea

Familia: Boidae
Subfamilia: Boinae
Genus: Boa
Species: Boa imperator
Subspecies (2): B. i. imperator – B. i. sabogae

Name

Boa imperator Daudin, 1803

Syntypes: MNHN-RA. [lost]
Type locality: “l’Amerique meridionale, principalement au Mexique” and “Mexique, à Carthagène, et dans le royaume de Choco”.

Combinations

Boa imperator Daudin, 1803: 150 [original combination, as species]
Constrictor constrictor imperator — Ihering, 1911: 321 [subsequent combination, reduce to subspecies]
Boa constrictor imperator — Forcart, 1951: 199 [subsequent combination]
Boa imperator — Reynolds, Niemiller & Revell, 2014 : 208 [subsequent combination, restaure to species]

References

Primary references

Daudin, F.M. 1803. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des reptiles : ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini. Tome Cinquième. L'Imprimerie de F. Dufart: Paris. 365 pp. + plates LIX–LXX. BHL Reference page.
Ihering, R. von 1911. As cobras do Brasil. Revista do Museo Paulista 8: 273–378. BHL
Forcart, L. 1951. Nomenclature remarks on some generic names of the snake family Boidae. Herpetologica 7: 197–199. JSTOR
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 Reference page.

Additional references

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 Reference page.
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 Reference page.
Suárez-Atilano, M., Burbrink, F.T. & Vázquez-Domínguez, E. 2014. Phylogeographic structure of Boa constrictor imperator with emphasis of diversification across the lowlands and mountains of Central America and Mexico. Journal of Biogeography 41(12): 2371–2384. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12372 Reference page.
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 Reference page.
Suárez-Atilano, M., Ojas-Soto, O., Parra, J.L. & Vázquez-Domínguez, E. 2017. The role of the environment on the genetic divergence between two Boa imperator lineages. Journal of Biogeography 44(9): 2045–2056. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13006 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.
Boundy, J. 2021. Snakes of the World: A Supplement. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 273 pp. ISBN 9781138618138 ebook Reference page.

Links

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Boa imperator. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 26 August 2020.
Montgomery, C.E. & da Cunha, O. 2018. IUCN: Boa imperator (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T203879A2771951. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T203879A2771951.en. Accessed on 02 May 2023.

Vernacular names

English: Central American Boa