Calabar python

Calabar python
Calabar python at Louisville Zoo, Louisville, Kentucky
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Boidae
Genus: Calabaria
Gray, 1858
Species:
C. reinhardtii
Binomial name
Calabaria reinhardtii
(Schlegel, 1851)
Synonyms[2]
  • Eryx reinhardtii
    — Schlegel, 1851
  • Calabaria fusca
    — Gray, 1858
  • Rhoptrura reinhardtii
    — W. Peters, 1861
  • Roptrura petiti
    — Sauvage, 1884
  • Calabaria reinhardti
    — Boulenger, 1893
  • Calabaria reinhardtii
    — Stimson, 1969
  • [Charina] reinhardtii
    — Kluge, 1993
Common names: Calabar ground boa, burrowing boa,[3] Calabar boa, more.

The Calabar python (Calabaria reinhardtii) is a species of non-venomous snake in the family Boidae. The species is endemic to West and Central Africa.[4] It is the only species in its genus.[5]

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  2. ^ McDiarmid, R.W. [in French]; Campbell, J.A.; Touré, T.A. (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference Vol. 1. Washington, DC: Herpetologists' League. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  3. ^ Mehrtens, J.M. (1987). Living Snakes of the World in Color. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. ISBN 0-8069-6460-X.
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  5. ^ Calabaria at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 8 January 2021.