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Hello everybody,

in our Reptilezoo (www.iguana.nl) in the Netherlands we have some specimen of Epicrates cenchria of which the subspecies is unknown.
The original specimen are from the most southern part of Surinam.
The adult animals are less than 100 cm long (they are over four years old).
Who helps us to finf out which subspecies this is.

This is a picture of the adult animals.

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This is a picture of a 5 months old specimen...

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This is a picture of a 10 months old specimen

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Last but not least, this is picture of a 11 months old specimen...

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The head and body pattination looks very much like the E.c.alverezi and the Campino Grande boa, but more like the Alverezi. Were they captive bred or wild caught? Eric

The adults , as well as the juveniles are born in captivity.
The parents of the adults were wildcaught-animals. As I said before... they are caught in the most-southern part of Surinam.

Has anyone the distribution of every subspecies for me? Or a site where I can find this?
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...Guyana Rainbow Boas, Epicrates cenchria subspecies. This is an as yet unnamed subspecies. The southern part of Surinam is probably the very eastern end of their range. It is also possible that due to political reasons their collection location was misreported. At various times different countries open and close their exports and quotas are met and so the exporters easily move them from one country to the next before'"legally" exporting them with CITES paperwork. These Guyana Rainbows have been imported into the US in big numbers and Europe to a lesser extent for the last 15 years. When they were first imported there was very limited information in print about Rainbow Boa subspecies but they looked somewhat like pictures of Epicrates cenchria crassus in a few books so importers mistakenly applied that subspecies name to them. Crassus actually comes from over a thousand miles further south than these snakes though.
Jeff

>>Hello everybody,
>>
>>in our Reptilezoo (www.iguana.nl) in the Netherlands we have some specimen of Epicrates cenchria of which the subspecies is unknown.
>>The original specimen are from the most southern part of Surinam.
>>The adult animals are less than 100 cm long (they are over four years old).
>>Who helps us to finf out which subspecies this is.
>>
>>This is a picture of the adult animals.
>>
>>Go to this gallery for more pics
>>
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>>Hello from the Netherlands... this is my Uro-Website
>>

Thanks Jeff, for the answer.

According to the keeper of the original snakes it was 100% certain that they were from the most southern part of Surinam.
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