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Scientific Names of All Boas and Pythons.....

lilroach56 Apr 21, 2004 06:37 PM

Here is a Scientific list of all Genera, species, and subspecies in the family Boidae.
Family-Boidae (all boas and pythons)

subfamily-Boinae (boas)

Genus: Acrantophis
Species: Acrantophis dumerili
Species: Acrantophis madagascariensis
Genus: Boa (to you unknowledgable you would call these Red tailed Boas)
Species: Boa constrictor
Subspecies: Boa constrictor amarili
Subspecies: Boa constrictor constrictor (common red tail)
Subspecies: Boa constrictor imperator (common red tail)
Subspecies: Boa constrictor longicauda
Subspecies: Boa constrictor mexicana
Subspecies: Boa constrictor nebulosa
Subspecies: Boa constrictor occidentalis
Subspecies: Boa constrictor orophias
Subspecies: Boa constrictor ortonii
Subspecies: Boa constrictor sabogae

Genus: Candoia
Species: Candoia aspera
Subspecies: Candoia aspera aspera
Subspecies: Candoia aspera schmidti
Species: Candoia bibroni
Subspecies: Candoia bibroni bibroni
Subspecies: Candoia bibroni australis
Species: Candoia carinata
Subspecies: Candoia carinata paulsoni
Subspecies: Candoia carinata carinata

Genus: Corallus
Species: Corallus annulatus
Subspecies: Corallus annulatus annulatus
Subspecies: Corallus annulatus blombergi
Subspecies: Corallus annulatus colombianus
Species: Corallus caninus
Species: Corallus cookii
Species: Corallus cropanii
Species: Corallus hortulanus
Subspecies: Corallus hortulanus hortulanus
Subspecies: Corallus hortulanus enydris
Species: Corallus ruschenbergerii

Genus: Epricrates
Species: Epicrates angulifer
Species: Epicrates cenchria
Subspecies: Epicrates cenchria cenchria
Subspecies: Epicrates cenchria alvarezi
Subspecies: Epicrates cenchria assisi
Subspecies: Epicrates cenchria barbouri
Subspecies: Epicrates cenchria crassus
Subspecies: Epicrates cenchria gaige
Subspecies: Epicrates cenchria hygrophilus
Subspecies: Epicrates cenchria maurus
Subspecies: Epicrates cenchria polylepis
Species: Epicrates chrysogaster
Subspecies: Epicrates chrysogaster chrysogaster
Subspecies: Epicrates chrysogaster relicquus
Subspecies: Epicrates chrysogaster schwartzi
Species: Epicrates exsul
Species: Epicrates fordii
Subspecies: Epicrates fordi fordi
Subspecies: Epicrates fordi agametus
Subspecies: Epicrates fordi manototus
Species: Epicrates gracilis
Subspecies: Epicrates gracilis gracilis
Subspecies: Epicrates gracilis hapalus
Species: Epicrates inornatus
Species: Epicrates monensis
Subspecies: Epicrates monensis monensis
Subspecies: Epicrates monensis granti
Species: Epicrates striatus
Subspecies: Epicrates striatus striatus
Subspecies: Epicrates striatus ailurus
Subspecies: Epicrates striatus fosteri
Subspecies: Epicrates striatus fowleri
Subspecies: Epicrates striatus exagistus
Subspecies: Epicrates striatus mccraniei
Subspecies: Epicrates striatus strigilatus
Subspecies: Epicrates striatus warreni
Species: Epicrates subflavus

Genus: Euncectes
Species: Eunectes beniensis
Species: Eunectes notaeus
Species: Eunectes murinus
Species: Eunectes deschauenseei

Genus: Sanzinia
Species: Sanzinia madagascariensis

Subfamily: Erycinae (Sand Boas)
Genus: Clabaria
Species: Calabaria reinhardtii

Genus: Charina
Species: Charina bottae
Subspecies: Charina bottae bottae
Subspecies: Charina bottae umbratica
Subspecies: Charina bottae utahensis
Species: Charina trivirgata
Subspecies: Lichanura trivirgata arizonae
Subspecies: Lichanura trivirgata gracia
Subspecies: Lichanura trivirgata roseofusca
Subspecies: Lichanura trivirgata saslowi
Subspecies: Lichanura trivirgata trivirgata

Genus: Eryx
Species: Eryx elegans
Species: Eryx jaculus
Subspecies: Eryx jaculus jaculus
Subspecies: Eryx jaculus familiaris
Subspecies: Eryx jaculus turcicus
Species: Eryx johnii
Subspecies: Eryx johnii johnii
Subspecies: Eryx johnii persicus
Species: Eryx jayakari
Species: Eryx miliaris
Subspecies: Eryx miliaris nogaiorum
Subspecies: Eryx miliaris miliaris
Species: Eryx somalicus
Species: Eryx whitakeri
Species: Eryx tataricus
Subspecies: Eryx tataricus tataricus
Subspecies: Eryx tataricus speciosus
Subspecies: Eryx tataricus vittatus

Genus: Gongylophis
Species: Gongylophis colubrinus
Subspecies: Gongylophis colubrinus loveridgei
Subspecies: Gongylophis colubrinus colubrinus
Species: Gongylophis conicus
Subspecies: Gongylophis conicus brevis
Subspecies: Gongylophis conicus conicus
Species: Gongylophis muelleri
Subspecies: Gongylophis muelleri muelleri
Subspecies: Gongylophis muelleri subniger

Subfamily: Pythoninae (pythons)
Genus: Aspidites
Species: Aspidites melanocephalus
Subspecies: Aspidites melanocephalus melanocephalus
Subspecies: Aspidites melanocephalus adelynensis
Subspecies: Aspidites melanocephalus davieii
Species: Aspidites ramsayi
Subspecies: Aspidites ramsayi ramsayi
Subspecies: Aspidites ramsayi panoptes
Subspecies: Aspidites ramsayi richardjonesii

Genus: Antaresia
Species: Antaresia childreni
Species: Antaresia maculosa
Species: Antaresia perthensis
Species: Antaresia stimsoni
Subspecies: Antaresia stimsoni stimsoni
Subspecies: Antaresia stimsoni orientalis

Genus: Apodora
Species: Apodora papuana

Genus: Bothrochilus
Species: Bothrochilus boa

Genus: Leiopython
Species: Leiopython albertisii

Genus: Liasis
Species: Liasis fuscus
Species: Liasis mackloti
Subspecies: Liasis mackloti mackloti
Subspecies: Liasis mackloti savuensis
Species: Liasis olivaceus
Subspecies: Liasis olivaceus olivaceus
Subspecies: Liasis olivaceus barroni

Genus: Morelia
Species: Morelia amethistina
Species: Morelia boeleni
Species: Morelia bredli
Species: Morelia carinata
Species: Morelia clastolepis
Species: Morelia kinghorni
Species: Morelia nauta
Species: Morelia oenpelliensis
Species: Morelia spilota
Subspecies: Morelia spilota imbricata
Subspecies: Morelia spilota cheynei
Subspecies: Morelia spilota macrospila
Subspecies: Morelia spilota mcdowelli
Subspecies: Morelia spilota spilota
Subspecies: Morelia spilota variegata
Subspecies: Morelia spilot metcalfei
Species: Morelia tracyae
Species: Morelia viridis

Genus: Python
Species: Python anchietae
Species: Python breitensteini
Species: Python brongersmai
Species: Python curtus
Species: Python molurus
Subspecies: Python molurus molurus
Subspecies: Python molurus bivittatus
Species: Python natalensis
Species: Python regius
Species: Python reticulatus
Subspecies: Python reticulatus jampeanus
Subspecies: Python reticulatus saputrai
Subspecies: Python reticulatus reticulatus
Species: Python sebae
Species: Python timoriensis

All information on this page i got from http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/~uetz/families/Boidae.html by clikcing on links.
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Replies (2)

stefan67 Apr 21, 2004 07:49 PM

Nice list. Not to nitpick, but hasn't there been a re-classification of Boas and Pythons into separate families (Pythonidae and Boidae) ? Along those lines, isn't acrantophis now classified as in the Boa genus?

Nice compilation overall though. I think I'd like one representative species out of each genus for my collection!

PBM Apr 21, 2004 07:51 PM

Sorry that song popped into my head immediately after I checked out your post, since you had just posted a similar thread. Just giving you a hard time though, nothing personal, just made me laugh! Take care!

Paul

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