Southern rubber boa
Charina umbratica, known commonly as the southern rubber boa, is a species of snake in the family Boidae.[3][4] The species is endemic to the United States, in southern California.
| Southern rubber boa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Boidae |
| Genus: | Charina |
| Species: | C. umbratica |
| Binomial name | |
| Charina umbratica Klauber, 1943 | |
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| Southern rubber boa range[1] | |
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Conservation status
As of April 2017, the southern rubber boa was listed as a state threatened species in the California Natural Diversity Database.[5]
References
- U.S. Geological Survey (2017). "Southern Rubber Boa (Charina umbratica) rSRBOx_CONUS_2001v1 Range Map". Gap Analysis Project. doi:10.5066/F7MK6BZ1.
- "Charina umbratica ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- "Charina". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
- Banks RC, McDiarmid RW, Gardner AL, Starnes WC (2004). Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
- California, State of. "Threatened and Endangered Reptiles - California Department of Fish and Wildlife". www.dfg.ca.gov. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
Further reading
- Klauber LM (1943). "The Subspecies of the Rubber Snake, Charina ". Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 10 (7): 83–90. (Charina bottae umbratica, new subspecies, pp. 83–85).
- Rodríguez-Robles, Javier A.; Stewart, Glenn R.; Papenfuss, Theodore J (2001). "Mitochondrial DNA-Based Phylogeography of North American Rubber Boas, Charina bottae (Serpentes: Boidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 18 (2): 227–237.
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