Corallus batesii

Corallus batesii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Boidae
Genus:	Corallus
Species:	C. batesii
Binomial name
	Corallus batesii; (Gray, 1860)
Synonyms
	Chrysenis batesii ; Gray, 1860; Corallus caninus (part); — Boulenger, 1893; Boa canina (part); — Amaral, 1925; Corallus caninus (part); — J.A. Peters & Orejas-Miranda, 1970[1]; Corallus batesii ; — Henderson, 2009; Corallus batesii ; — Wallach, 2014[2];

Corallus batesii, the Amazon Basin emerald tree boa, is a species of boa found in the tropical rainforests of South America. This species has been revalidated from the synonymy of Corallus caninus by Henderson and colleagues in 2009.[2][3]

Taxonomy and etymology

English naturalist John Edward Gray originally described this species as Chrysenis batesii in 1860.[4] The specific name, batesii, is in honor of Henry Walter Bates, an English naturalist and explorer, for whom Batesian mimicry is also named.[5]

Description

The Amazon Basin emerald tree boa has a yellow belly. The dorsum is dark green with an enamel-white vertebral stripe, which has confluent partial crossbars, often bordered by some black spots. Corallus batesii differs from C. caninus by the shape and the number of scales across the snout. C. batesii is bigger than C. caninus, growing to a total length (including tail) approaching 9 feet (2.7 m).[6]

Distribution and habitat

The "Basin species", as the common name suggests, is only found in the basin of the Amazon River, in southern Suriname, southern Venezuela to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil and in the surrounding jungles of the Amazon River.[7]

References

McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
Corallus batesii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 30 July 2016.
"Corallus batesii ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
Gray JE (1860). "Description of a New Genus of Boidæ discovered by Mr. Bates on the Upper Amazon". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Third Series 6: 131-132. (Chrysenis batesii, new species). (original text).
Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Corallus batesii, p. 19).
Henderson, Robert W.; Pauers, Michael J.; Colston, Timothy J. (2013). "On the congruence of morphology, trophic ecology, and phylogeny in Neotropical treeboas (Squamata: Boidae: Corallus)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 109 (2): 466–475. doi:10.1111/bij.12052.
Bernarde PS, Albuquerque S, Barros TO, Turci LCB (2012). "Serpentes do Estado de Rondônia, Brasil ". Biota neotrop. 12 (3): 1-29. (in Portuguese).

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[McD99-1] McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).

[RDB-2] Corallus batesii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 30 July 2016.

[ITIS-3] "Corallus batesii ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 12 July 2016.

[4] Gray JE (1860). "Description of a New Genus of Boidæ discovered by Mr. Bates on the Upper Amazon". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Third Series 6: 131-132. (Chrysenis batesii, new species). (original text).

[5] Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Corallus batesii, p. 19).

[Hend14-6] Henderson, Robert W.; Pauers, Michael J.; Colston, Timothy J. (2013). "On the congruence of morphology, trophic ecology, and phylogeny in Neotropical treeboas (Squamata: Boidae: Corallus)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 109 (2): 466–475. doi:10.1111/bij.12052.

[Ber22-7] Bernarde PS, Albuquerque S, Barros TO, Turci LCB (2012). "Serpentes do Estado de Rondônia, Brasil ". Biota neotrop. 12 (3): 1-29. (in Portuguese).