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Boa constrictor
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Scientific classification
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Kinrick:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Chordata
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Subphylum:
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Vertebrata
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Cless:
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Reptilia
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Order:
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Squamata
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Suborder:
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Serpentes
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Faimily:
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Boidae
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Subfaimily:
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Boinae
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Genus:
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Boa
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Species:
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B. constrictor
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Binomial name
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Boa constrictor
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Synonyms
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- [
Boa
]
Constrictor
Linnaeus, 1758
- [
Boa
]
Orophias
Linnaeus, 1758
- Constrictor formosissimus
Laurenti
, 1768
- Constrictor rex serpentum
Laurenti, 1768
- Constrictor auspex
Laurenti, 1768
- Constrictor diviniloquus
Laurenti, 1768
- Constrictor orophias
– Laurenti, 1768
- [
Boa
]
constrictrix
–
Schneider
, 1801
- Boa diviniloqua
–
A.M.C. Dumeril
&
Bibron
, 1844
- Boa constrictor
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Boulenger
, 1893
- Boa diviniloqua
– Boulenger, 1893
- Constrictor constrictor
– Griffin, 1916
- Constrictor constrictor constrictor
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Stull
, 1935
- Boa constrictor constrictor
–
Forcart
, 1951
[1]
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The
Boa constrictor
is a species o muckle, hivy-bodied
snake
.
- ↑
McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Toure T. 1999.
Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference
, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League.
ISBN 1-893777-00-6
(series).
ISBN 1-893777-01-4
(volume).