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| | Boas and Pythons |
 | | Desert sand boas are nocturnal and hide in sand to ambush prey. | | | Most of the 40 species of boas are found in the New World with the rest scattered in North America, Africa, Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific islands. | | | The boas and pythons belong to the family Boidae which is part of the superfamily Booids. |
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http://www.szgdocent.org/resource/rr/c-boa.htm
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| | Python,Reptiles,Amphibians,Python Picture Gallery Collection,Python Pictures,Encyclopedia,Python |
| | The python subfamily, Pythoninae, sometimes classified as a separate family, is composed of 6 or 7 essentially tropical genera distributed in Africa, Asia, and the Australian region. | | | Date : 10/30/2005 Time : 10:52:11 PM Pythons are 16 to 18 species of nonvenomous snakes of the family Boidae, which also contains the boas and other large constricting snakes. |
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http://www.4to40.com/earth/geography/htm/reptilesindex.asp?counter=39
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| | Probert Encyclopaedia: Nature (Blat-Bom) |
| | It is a tree of considerable size, with sap abounding in caoutchouc, while it also yields lac. | | | The boa is a genus of serpents of the family Boidae. | | | The family is comprised of five subfamilies, twenty three genera and some eighty species found in the tropics. |
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http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/B1FA.HTM
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| | Animal Fact Sheets |
| | Snakes of the family Boidae are distributed throughout the tropics and subtropics of both hemispheres, and extend well into temperate western North America. | | | Desert rosy boas belong to the family of snakes Boidae, which contains some of the world's largest snakes species: anacondas, reticulated pythons, as well as many smaller forms. | | | The family Boidae is further divided into several subfamilies: Boinae (large boas); Erycinae (sand boas, rosy boas and rubber boas); Pythoninae (pythons) and Calabariinae (burrowing pythons). |
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http://www.zoo.org/educate/fact_sheets/day/r_boa.htm
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| | Corallus.com: References and Citations |
| | Miller, Tracy J. Corallus enydris enydris (garden tree boa) food. | | | Distribution and variation in the Treeboa Corallus annulatus (Serpentes: Boidae). | | | Contribution to knowledge of the Serpentes from the state of Maranhao Brazil Serpentes Boidae Colubridae and Viperidae. |
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http://www.corallus.com/references.html
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| | The group is found generally in Central and South America, although some rare species occur in North America, southeastern Europe, Madagascar and New Guinea. | | | The boa constrictor and the anaconda are the two best known snakes from the Boidae family. | | | Following a large meal, anacondas often stretch out on a warm sand bank to digest its meal which may take several days. |
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http://home.globalcrossing.net/~brendel/boidae.html
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| | Dumeril's boa - Acrantophis dumerili: More Information - ARKive |
| | Dumeril's boa, also known as the Madagascar ground boa is a striking snake that grows up to 1.8 m in length (2). | | | Like most members of the Boidae family, it is a fairly stout snake (4). | | | Grey and brown bands pass along the length of the body, with black markings (2). |
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http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/reptiles/Acrantophis_dumerili/more_info.html
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| | Green Anaconda |
| | These are used in courtship, mating and combat. | | | There are spurs on either side of the anal scales, which is typical of boidae. | | | These specimens usually utilize a swift bite to hold their prey followed by a coiling of a loop or two around the main body. |
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http://home.neo.rr.com/edzoo/Scales/green_anaconda.htm
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| | Pythons Animal Facts Chaffee Zoological Gardens of Fresno |
| | Some have been observed to brood their eggs by coiling around them and by continuously twitching their muscles, raising their temperature by a few degrees, thus incubating them until they hatch. | | | Some herpetologists place boas and pythons in separate families. | | | The family Boidae consists of pythons and boas, pythons comprising the sub-family Pythoninae. |
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http://www.chaffeezoo.org/animals/pythons.html
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| | Snakes Boidae |
| | Danger: Due to the small size no danger for humans exists. | | | Cylindrophiidae] [Xenopeltidae] [Boidae] [Acrochordidae] [Ahaetulla] [Boiga] [Chrysopelea] [Coelognathus] [Dendrelaphis] [ |
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http://www.siam-info.de/english/snakes_boidae.html
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| | No Boidae have venomous fangs but all have non-venomous fangs. | | | the family called Boidae two types of snake belong to it and they are Pythons and Boas. | | | These snakes families are called Boidae, Colubridae, Elapidae and Viperidae. |
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http://website.lineone.net/~adam.routledge/families.htm
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| | Boa Constrictor Fact Sheet - National Zoo FONZ |
| | Boa constrictors are found from northern Mexico to Argentina. | | | Larger members of the Boidae family have heat-sensitive pits on its head, but this snake has more simple heat-sensitive scales. |
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http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ReptilesAmphibians/Facts/FactSheets/Boaconstrictor.cfm
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| | Boas and Pythons (from snake) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | Other boas are the Mascarene, or split-jawed, boas (family Bolyeriidae) and dwarf boas (ground and wood boas of the family Tropidophiidae); these two families are not closely related to each other or to the true boas. | | | The Boidae (boas) and Pythonidae (pythons) are closely related families, sometimes classed together into the single family Boidae of boas, pythons, and wood snakes. | | | They include the largest snakes in the world, such as the anaconda (Eunectes murinus) of South America and the reticulated python (Python reticulatus) of Asia. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-208156?tocId=208156
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| | Phylogeny |
| | In most members of Boidae, no pits are present and the thermosensory cells lie very near the surface of the skin under the labial scales. | | | Alethinophidia, or the "true snakes" contains ten families of "primitive" snakes, including Pythonidae and Boidae, and the Caenophidia, or "advanced" snakes. | | | It is currently held that Crotalinae is a monophyletic group with a synapomorphic presence of heat sensing pits, indicating that advanced thermoreception evolved only once in this sub-family. |
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http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/bionb424/students2004/bjp27/phylogeny.htm
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| | Boidae: Erycinae |
| | Danilov, I. and Averianov, A. O., 1999: A new species of Calamagrus Cope, 1873 (Serpentes, Boidae, Erycinae) from the early Eocene of Kirghizia. |
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http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Reptilia/Lepidosauromorpha/Pythonomorpha/Boidea/Erycinae.htm
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| | The carpet python, or "carpet snake", Morelia spilota (family Boidae), is called: | | | This python varies considerably in colour and markings, from pale to dark brown, with pale and/or dark markings. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/2970/carpetp.htm
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| | What is a Boa? What is a Python? |
| | However, there will still be herpers who cannot or will not shake their sentimental attachments and will persist in making references to Mexican burrowing “pythons” or Caribbean dwarf “boas”, despite the fact that those animals are no longer “officially” considered boids. | | | Two previously recognized Boidae subfamilies, the Tropidophiinae (the dwarf boas, or wood snakes, of the Caribbean islands) and the Bolyeriinae (the extremely rare, oviparous Round Island boas), were moved out of the family Boidae and elevated to full family status as the Tropidophidae and Bolyeridae, respectively. | | | Even staying within the family Boidae, there are herpers who still insist on referring to their green tree pythons as Chondropython, or Chondros for short, even though they are now classified Morelia viridis. |
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http://www.hiersherp.com/article1.htm
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| | Boa Constrictor |
| | is the boa constrictor, a snake of the Boidae family. | | | Snakes were the last of the great reptile groups to appear; and, among living snakes, the Boids remain closest to their primitive form. | | | What makes this story even more fascinating is the fact that the author works at a Primate Research Center. |
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http://thunder.sonic.net/~mk/work/boa.html
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| | Sand Boa Literature |
| | Tokar, A.A. The revision of the genus Eryx (Serpentes Boidae), osteological evidence. | | | Gray, J.E. Description of a new genus of boidae from old Calabar, and a list of west African Reptiles. | | | Tokar, A.A. A revision of the subspecies structure of the javelin sand boa Eryx jaculus (L. 1758) (Reptilia Boidae). |
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http://www.kingsnake.com/sandboa/litcit.html
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| | boa on Encyclopedia.com |
| | (bō´e), name for live-bearing constrictor snakes of the family Boidae, found mostly in the Americas. | | | Boas are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Reptilia, order Squamata, family Boidae. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/b1/boa.asp
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| | 08 Sheplan, B.R. and Schwartz, A. Hisponolan boas of the genus Epicrates (Serpentes, Boidae) and their Antillean relationship. | | | The species is also listed in the IUCN Red Data Book. | | | (Listed as species Epicrates monensis which also includes the Virgin Islands tree boa.) INTERNATIONAL STATUSES, TREATIES, AND AGREEMENTS: The Mona boa was initially included on Appendix II of CITES under "higher taxa" listing all species of the family Boidae, but since has been placed in Appendix I on 07/29/83. |
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| | Definition of boidae - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary |
| | For More Information on "boidae" go to Britannica.com | | | Get the Top 10 Search Results for "boidae" | | | boidae is one of more than 1,000,000 entries available at Merriam-WebsterUnabridged.com. |
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http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=Boidae
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| | Herpbreeder.dk |
| | Protective balling-posture behavior in the genus Eunectes Wagler, 1830 (Serpentes: Boidae). | | | Dirksen, L. Zur Kenntnis der Anakonda-Arten (Serpentes: Boidae: Eunectes). | | | Studien an Anakondas 2: Zum taxonomischen Status von Eunectes murinus gigas (Latreille, 1801) (Serpentes: Boidae), mit neuen Ergebnissen zur Gattung Eunectes Wagler, 1830. |
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http://www.herpbreeder.com/worldspecies/Snakes/boidea/eunectes.htm
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| | VPI Print Publications |
| | "Systematics of pythons of the Morelia amethistina complex (Serpentes: Boidae) with the description of three new species." Herpetological Monographs No. 14(1) 139-185. | | | Murphy, James, B., William E. Lamoreaux and David G. Barker, "Miscellaneous Notes on the Reproductive Biology of Reptiles: Eight Species of the family Boidae, Genera Acrantophis, Aspidites, Candoia, Liasis and Python." co-authored with. | | | Murphy, James B., Bern W. Tryon and David G. Barker, "Miscellaneous Notes on the Reproductive Biology of Reptiles: Eleven Species of the Family Boidae, Genera Candoia, Corallus, Epicrates, and Python. |
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| | Boa Constrictors |
| | Boa Constrictors belong to the family Boidae, which includes 5 genera of boas, 3 genera of sand boas, 8 genera of pythons. | | | Got Pets Online - Lots of Boa Constrictor Snake pictures, pet eCards, websites, classifieds, and more. |
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http://www.boa-constrictor-snakes.com
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| | Prof. Dr Zbigniew Szyndlar - Serpentes: Booidea: Boidae: Erycinae, fossil. |
| | Sand boas (Serpentes: Booidea: Boidae: Erycinae) of the Paleogene and Neogene of West Palearctic: their origin and fossil history (project KBN 3P04C 097 24) (in collaboration with Jean-Claude Rage, MNHN, Paris). | | | Snakes from the Miocene of Sandelzhausen (a part of the Sandelzhausen project of the University of Munich: click here for details). | | | Dr Zbigniew Szyndlar - Serpentes: Booidea: Boidae: Erycinae, fossil. |
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| | Rosy Boa, Lichanura trivirgata (Boidae), Pictures and Information, Photographs, Snakes, Serpentes |
| | Rosy Boa, Lichanura trivirgata (Boidae), Pictures and Information, Photographs, Snakes, Serpentes |
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| | Stimson,A.F. Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien: Boidae |
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