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These PICs look like other PICs of Rainbow Boas from Trinidad I have seen. The late Peter Watson from the boa forum sent me several that looked like these and a native Trinidadan (is that the right word?) sent other PICs like these. Rainbow Boas on Trinidad either look somewhat like maurus or somewhat like cenchria cenchria. My guess is they are an intergradation between cenchria cenchria and cenchria maurus. The differences between specimens sort of supports the intergradation idea. Thanks to Frank for sending them to us.
Jeff

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>>These PICs look like other PICs of Rainbow Boas from Trinidad I have seen. The late Peter Watson from the boa forum sent me several that looked like these and a native Trinidadan (is that the right word?) sent other PICs like these. Rainbow Boas on Trinidad either look somewhat like maurus or somewhat like cenchria cenchria. My guess is they are an intergradation between cenchria cenchria and cenchria maurus. The differences between specimens sort of supports the intergradation idea. Thanks to Frank for sending them to us.
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>>>>These PICs look like other PICs of Rainbow Boas from Trinidad I have seen. The late Peter Watson from the boa forum sent me several that looked like these and a native Trinidadan (is that the right word?) sent other PICs like these. Rainbow Boas on Trinidad either look somewhat like maurus or somewhat like cenchria cenchria. My guess is they are an intergradation between cenchria cenchria and cenchria maurus. The differences between specimens sort of supports the intergradation idea. Thanks to Frank for sending them to us.
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...and the correct term is Trinidadian, not Trinidadan.

Nice pics...
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Imans House of Herps

I received a sexed pair of Crassus from the Reptile Breeding Foundation in the late 80's, and they looked EXACTLY like the Trinidad morphs in the pix. I seem to remember the pair was captive bred @ the Bronx Zoo.

Sure wish Tom was still around to help out.

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BT

Where is this published, who described them?
To correctly "latinize" an animals geographic
location the suffix "ensis" is usually added to
the country/region. Therefore Trinidadensis
would be correct, if they are in fact different
enought to warrant subspecific status

Horridus

Hey Jeff,

The insular species are obviously derivatives of the mainland forms. In that, they are often times smaller, and incorporate a more diverse habitat than that of their larger counterparts. A smaller island habitat would mean they would have to take advantage of less resources. I've read accounts where the anacondas from Trinidad and Tobago are smaller too. I've seen rainbow's from Margarita Is. which is literally seven miles fromn the coast of Venezuela, and they closely resemble the mainland forms. Very nice pics, I'm glad we got to see them finally!

Jay