| A
monotypic genus, well known for the high degree of color
dimorphism among juvenile and adult animals.
Bothrochilus
Fitzinger, 1843
(Type = Tortrix boa)
Nardoa Gray, 1842
(Type = Nardoa schlegelii)
Nardoana Berg, 1901
(Type = Nardoa schlegelii) |
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Bothrochilus
boa (Schlegel, 1837)
Liasis
boa (Schlegel, 1837)
Morelia boa (Schlegel, 1837)
Nardoa boa (Schlegel, 1837)
Nardoa schlegelii Gray, 1842
Nardoana boa (Schlegel, 1837)
Tortrix boa Schlegel, 1837 |
Distribution: Bismarck Archipelago
and Papua
New Guinea. |
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| Literature |
| Fitzinger,
L.J.F.J. 1843. Systema reptilium. Fasciculus primus, Amblyglossae.
Vindobonae, Braumuller et Seidel, Vienna, vi + 106 pp. |
| Gray,
J.E. 1842. Synopsis of the species of prehensile-tailed
Snakes, or Family Boidæ. Zool. Misc., London, 2:
41-46. |
| Hoser,
R. 2000. A Revision of the Australasian Pythons. Ophidia
Review, 1(1): 7-27. |
| McDiarmid,
R.W., J.A. Campbell & T.A. Touré. 1999. Snakes
Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference.
Volume 1. Herpetol. League, Washington, 511 pp. |
| McDowell,
S.B. 1975. A Catalogue of the Snakes of New Guinea and
the Solomons, with Special Reference to Those in the Bernice
P. Bishop Museum. Part II. Anilioidea and Pythoninae.
J. Herpetol., 9(1): 1-79. |
| O’Shea,
M. 1996. A Guide to the Snakes of Papua New Guinea. Independent
Group Pty, Singapore, 239 pp. |
| Shine,
R. & D.J. Slip. 1990. Biological Aspects of the Adaptive
Radiation of Australasian Pythons (Serpentes: Boidae).
Herpetologica, 46(3): 283-290. |
| Vergner,
I. 1994. Zur Fortpflanzung von Python-Arten. DATZ, 47(9):
564-568. |
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