Mirus, a Trinidad surveyor, assures me that he has seen one fourteen feet (4.27m) long.”. Contrary to this, Mole reported that “ The ordinary length is about eight or nine feet (2.43m-2.74m), but I have had in my cages two which were twelve feet (3.66m) long. Today and in the recent past, there are few cases where living specimens exceeding 3m in length have been seen or even collected in the wild.Īccording to Bonny, the largest specimen collected from Trinidad and Tobago had a total length of 335 cm. Aside from the difficulties of approximating snakes lengths accurately, there might also be deliberate exaggerations by the story teller. While unsubstantiated stories of extremely large individuals of Boa constrictor continue to be told, most of these are often based in approximations from encounters in the wild. Description and taxonomic notesīoa constrictor is a heavy bodied, muscular snake.
Boa constrictor Shaw and Nodder, 1790: plate 51.Constrictor auspex Linnaeus, 1788: 1083.Constrictor rex serpentum Linnaeus, 1788: 1083.Constrictor formosissimus Linnaeus, 1788: 1083.Constrictor diviniloquus Laurenti, 1768: 108.Constrictor rex serpentum Laurenti, 1768: 107.Constrictor formosissimus Laurenti, 1768: 107.Serpens americana arborea, singulari artificio picta, magni aestimata Linneo & Sundius: 1748: 21.Cenchris scutis abdominalibus Linnaeo & Sundius, 1748: 20.
Serpens ammodites Surinamensis Seba, 1735: 83.Serpens americana, arborea, singulari artificio picta, magni aestimata Seba, 1734: 85 ( special artifice painted, highly regarded ).Serpens americana, maximo in honare, etc.Vipera americana Scheuchzer, 1731: 1532.Hidden inventory / lost, two syntypes, NRM 10 and NRM 20001. Better known as Linnaeus, he was responsible for inventing the system we use today to name, rank and classify living organisms. Described and named by Carl Linne (1707-1778). Photo William Montgomery Boa constrictor by Shaw & Nodder, 1791. Scientific Name Boa constrictor Boa constrictor, Trinidad. Requirements for keeping West Indian Boas.Conservation of West Indian Herpetofauna.The red tailed boa's main diet is small mammals and they are strictly carnivores.
SCIENTIFIC NAME FOR BOA CONSTRICTOR SKIN
Like other snakes, the red tailed boa sheds it's skin as it grows. The red tailed boa has great vision and can feel vibrations in the ground and sound vibrations through air through their jaw bones. Other than during mating, the red tailed boa is a solitary snake. The young are independent within minutes of being born. The average litter has 25 young with the gestation period lasting 5 to 8 months. The embryos develop inside the mothers' body, and are birthed as live young. Their tails range from blood red to copper, rust coloring. The red tailed boa has a tan or brown body with darker brown or black spots. The red tailed boa is dimorphic - the males tail is longer because of the space taken up the hemipenes. The red tailed boa is a moderately sized snake ranging from 3 to 14 feet and weighing usually up to 33 pounds. The juveniles are more arboreal than adults. They can also be found near streams and rivers and are avid swimmers although they prefer dry land. They can live in rainforest clearings, woodlands, grasslands, dry tropical forest and semi-desert. The are found in a wide range of habitats. The red tailed boa is considered a New World species and is found in North, South and Central America including the Caribbean.
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