Corallus cookii

Corallus cookii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Boidae
Subfamily: Boinae
Genus: Corallus
Species: C. cookii
Binomial name
Corallus cookii
Gray, 1842
Synonyms
  • Corallus Cookii Gray, 1842
  • Corallus hortulanus Melanea Gray, 1849
  • Corallus cookii
    — Boulenger, 1893
  • Boa cooki
    — Ihering, 1911
  • Boa cooki — Griffin, 1916
  • Boa enydris cookii
    — Stull, 1935
  • Boa cookii — Stull, 1935
  • Corallus enydris cookii — Forcart, 1951
  • Corallus hortulanus cookii — Roze, 1966
  • Corallus hortulanus cooki
    — Stafford & Henderson, 1996
  • Corallus cooki
    — Henderson, 1997[1]
Common names: Cook's tree boa,[2] Cooke's tree boa.[3]

Corallus cookii is a nonvenomous boa species endemic to the island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean. No subspecies are currently recognized.[2] In Trinidad, the tree boa Corallus hortulanus is known as the Cook's tree boa.

Etymology

The specific name, cookii, is in honor of English artist and naturalist Edward William Cooke.[3]

Description

C. cookii is similar to C. hortulanus and C. grenadensis, only smaller, with adults reaching a total length (including tail) of 5 feet (152 cm), and being mainly gray or brown in color. Not more than a few specimens exist in captivity.[4]

Geographic range

Endemic to the island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean, C. cookii is known only from a few locations on the island. The type locality given is "West Indies", which was restricted to "St. Vincent" by Henderson (1997).[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Corallus cookii". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 14 July 2008.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Corallus cookii, p. 58).
  4. ↑ Stafford PJ, Henderson RW. 1996. Kaleidoscopic Tree Boas: The Genus Corallus of Tropical America. Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company. 120 pp. ISBN 0-89464-975-2.

Further reading

  • Gray JE. 1842. Synopsis of the species of prehensile-tailed Snakes, or family Boidæ. Zoological Miscellany, London 2: 41-46. (Corallus cookii, new species, p. 42).
  • Henderson RW. 1997. A Taxonomic Review of the Corallus hortulanus Complex of Neotropical Tree Boas. Carib. J. Sci. 33 (3-4): 198-221.

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