Trachyboa Explained

Common name: eyelash boas

Trachyboa is a genus of nonvenomous dwarf boas endemic to Central and South America. They are largely terrestrial, fish-eating snakes that inhabit tropical lowlands. Two species are recognized.

Distribution and habitat

Species of Trachyboa are found in Central and South America in Panama, Pacific Colombia, and Ecuador.

Species

Species	Taxon author	Common name	Geographic range
Trachyboa boulengeri	Peracca, 1910	northern eyelash boa	From Panama in the Chocó region through Pacific Colombia to Ecuador.
Trachyboa gularis^T	W. Peters, 1860	Ecuadorian eyelash boa	Ecuador in the dry regions along the coast.

^T) Type species.

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families ... Boidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (Genus Trachyboa, p. 109).
• Freiberg M (1982). Snakes of South America. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. 189 pp. . (Genus Trachyboa, p. 88).
• Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. xi + 378 pp. . (Genus Trachyboa, p. 320).
• Peters W (1860). "Eine neue Gattung von Riesenschlangen vor, welche von einem gebornen Preussen, Hrn. Carl Reiss, in Guayaquil nebst mehreren andern werthvollen Naturalien dem zoologischen Museum zugesandt worden ist ". Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1860: 200-202. (Trachyboa, new genus, p. 200). (in German).