Aplopeltura boa
Authors/Creators
- 1. Biodiversity Informatics and Research Center, Father Saturnino Urios University, San Francisco St., Butuan City, Agusan del Norte, 8600, Philippines
- 2. Natural Sciences and Mathematics Division, Father Saturnino Urios University, San Francisco St., Butuan City, Agusan del Norte, 8600, Philippines
- 3. Biodiversity Informatics and Research Center, Father Saturnino Urios University, San Francisco St., Butuan City, Agusan del Norte, 8600, Philippines & Department of Mammalogy, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York 10024, USA & Biodiversity Institute and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
- 4. Biodiversity Institute and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
Description
Aplopeltura boa (Boie, 1828)
Vernacular name.
Blunt-headed Slug-eating Snake
Material examined.
Philippines • 1 individual; Mindanao, Agusan del Sur Province, Municipality of Bunawan, Barangay San Marcos; 08°13'21"N, 125°55'57"E; KU 314129.
Identification.
A long, slender-bodied arboreal snake with smooth dorsal scales in 13 rows at midbody, large eyes with round pupils, a laterally compressed head, unusually squarish, blunt snout, ventral body scales larger than dorsal body scales, tail conical or rounded (Weinell et al. 2019), and dorsal body surfaces irregularly patterned in patches of brown, tan, and black.
Remarks.
This species is widely distributed across Mindanao PAIC islands (Leviton et al. 2018) and was encountered climbing in shrub layer vegetation on the forest edge, following heavy rain.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- KU
- Material sample ID
- KU 314129
- Scientific name authorship
- Boie
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Family
- Pareidae
- Genus
- Aplopeltura
- Species
- boa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aplopeltura boa (Boie, 1828) sec. Sanguila, Labaja, Bernstein & Brown, 2026
References
- Weinell JL, Hooper E, Levition AE, Brown RM (2019) Illustrated key to the snakes of the Philippines. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 66: 1–49.
- Leviton AE, Siler CD, Weinell JL, Brown RM (2018) Synopsis of the snakes of the Philippines: A synthesis of data from biodiversity repositories, field studies, and the literature. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 64: 399–568. https://doi.org/10.15468/tuhqrg