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I was browsing the "Rainbow Boa" section of Wikipedia and they list 10 subspecies of Rainbows... I also noticed that they did not give mention to a Trinidad and Tobago or Venezuela subspecies (usually said to be Colobians).

Can anyone attest to these? Man I'd love to go to South America and document each one! - Who's with me!?

Jeff - congrats on having your site listed as the only "external link". It seems your page is Encyclopedia worthy
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I never go over there but I checked it out after your post. The one labeled as Central Highland Rainbow Boa is called Minas Gerias and the one Rio Branco is Rio Bravo but my book could be wrong. About the ones not mentioned, in my book it noted that the Columbian subspecies was the most divergent of all the rainbows and did talk about the Venezuelan and Guyanan which fall under the Columbian Rainbow Boa as the subspecies.
Bob

Bob,
...The two subspecies and a couple others each have two or more common names.
Jeff

>>I never go over there but I checked it out after your post. The one labeled as Central Highland Rainbow Boa is called Minas Gerias and the one Rio Branco is Rio Bravo but my book could be wrong. About the ones not mentioned, in my book it noted that the Columbian subspecies was the most divergent of all the rainbows and did talk about the Venezuelan and Guyanan which fall under the Columbian Rainbow Boa as the subspecies.
>>Bob

Iman,
....The herpetologists at the Bhutantan Institute in Brazil have been working on recategorizing the Rainbow Boas. They have thousands of specimens from all over the South American continent and have done DNA studies. They will come out with a new short list lumping the currently recognized subspecies together into three or four new subspecies. Colombians will probably be listed as an entirely different species. They may have already released their study and subspecific recommendations. I know some of what they will recommend and have range maps but have been sworn to secrecy until the study is released. My guess is that whatever they come up with it will be adopted without too much debate because nothing has been done with the sorting out of the Rainbow Boas and some of the subspecies seem so similar that they should be lumped together.
....I am not surprised that my website is linked from Wikipedia. Whenever I do a google search for Rainbow Boas my site is usually among the first 2 or 3 listed. I would think that the people running Wikipedia easily found my site and chose it because it is not a commercial site. I have done nothing to the site for several years and should probably update it which it needs
Jeff

>>I was browsing the "Rainbow Boa" section of Wikipedia and they list 10 subspecies of Rainbows... I also noticed that they did not give mention to a Trinidad and Tobago or Venezuela subspecies (usually said to be Colobians).
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>>Can anyone attest to these? Man I'd love to go to South America and document each one! - Who's with me!?
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>>Jeff - congrats on having your site listed as the only "external link". It seems your page is Encyclopedia worthy
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>>-Iman
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>>Loving to Learn
>>Learning to Help
>>Helping to Love
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>>Stimulate debates, stifle arguments.
>>Please be nice always.
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Jeff, you definitely have to let us all know when that study is released so we can all brush up on the results and see where our rainbows fall into. A link to the published findings would be great to, if possible.
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PHLdyPayne