Description Bothrochilus boa
Date uploaded on 1 Feb 2006
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The Bismarck ringed python, Bothrochilus boa, is a nonvenomous python species, B. boa, found on the islands of the Bismarck Archipelago. These snakes are nocturnal and fossorial. Order: Squamata, Suborder: Serpentes, Family: Pythonidae, Genus: Bothrochilus, Species: Bothrochilus boa (Schlegel, 1837).
Synonyms:
Nardoa - Gray, 1842
Bothrochilus - Fitzinger, 1843
Nardoana - Berg, 1901
Tortrix boa - Schlegel, 1837
Nardoa Schlegelii - Gray, 1842
Bothrochilus Boa - Fitzinger, 1843
Nardoa boa - Müller, 1882
Nardoa boa - Boulenger, 1893
Nardoana boa - Berg, 1901
Nardoa boa - De Jong, 1930
Bothrochilus boa - Loveridge, 1946
Liasis boa - McDowell, 1975
Morelia boa - Underwood & Stimson, 1993
B[othrochilus]. boa - Kluge, 1993