Boa carinata = Candoia carinata (Pacific ground boa) Boa carinata
Date between 1734 and 1765
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Albertus Seba. Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiossimis expressio, per univ. physices historiam ... / Opus, ... ex toto terrarum orbe collegit, digessit, descripsit A.S Amstelaedami: Apud Janssonio - Waesbergios, & J. Wetstenium, & Gul Smith, 1735, Tom II, Tab XXVIII, no. 3,4.
Old Latin name Boa carinata
New Latin name Candoia carinata
Common name Nederlands: Melanesische boa
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Candoia carinata, known commonly as the Pacific ground boa, Pacific keel-scaled boa, or Indonesian tree boa, is a species of snake in the family Boidae. Candoia carinata is found in Indonesia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago. The name carinata (Latin, carinate or keeled) alludes to the prominent keels characteristic of the species. At the time the name was proposed, the species was the only booid snake known with keeled scales.
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Boidae
Genus: Candoia
Species: Candoia carinata (Schneider, 1801)
Synonyms
- Boa carinata Schneider, 1801
- Candoia carinata — Gray, 1842
- Enygrus carinatus — A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844
- Candoia carinata — Stimson, 1969
