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 BOA 



6oa constr ictor impera tor Daudin 



I8O3 Boa imperator Daudin. Hist. Nat. Rept., 5= 150. Type-locality: Mexico; restricted to Cordoba, 

 Veracruz, Mexico, by Smith and Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sc i . Bull., 33j 1950> 350> also restric- 

 ted to Choco of Colombia by flunn and Saxe, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 102, 1550> I6I, in 

 a rather offhand fashion. 



1842 Boa eques Eydoux and Souleyet, Voyage La Bonite, Zoology, 1: 144. Type-locality: Paita, 

 Peru I original citation not verified by usj. 



I863 Boa d i vin iloquax var. mex icana Jan, Elenco Sistema Of idi: 23. Tyoe-local i ty: Mexico. 



1883 Boa constrictor var. isthm ica Carman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 8 (3): 9» Type-locality: 



Given as Central America; further specified, from the syntypes, as Bas Obispo, Panama, 

 and Turbo, Colombia, by Barbour and Loveridge, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69, I929, 22/. 



194^ Constrictor constrictor siqma Smith. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 93: 411. Type-locality: 

 Mar'a Madre Island, Tres Mar'as, Mexico. 



1951 Boa constrictor imperatoi — Forcart. Herpetolog ica, 7: I99. 



Distribution: Mexico to northwestern South America, west of Andes, in Colombia, Ecuador, and 

 Peru. 



Boa constr ictor occ i dental i s Ph i 1 i pp i 



187? Boa occidentalis Philippi Zeitsch. Gesammte Na turw i ss. , 41: 128, pi. 3. Type-locality: 

 Argentina; indicated as Provincias de Mendoza and San Juan, Argentina, by Stimson, 

 Das Tierreich, 89, I969, 3. 



1951 Boa constrictor occ idental is — Forcart, Herpetolog ica, f: 199- 



Distribution: Argentina and Paraguay. 



Boa constr ictor orton i i Cope 



I878 Boa ortoni i Cope. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, I7 (I877): 35. Type-locality: Chilete, near 



Pacasmayo, Peru, 3^00 ft. 

 1951 Boa constr ictor orton i i — Stimson, Das Tierreich, 89, 1969> ^' 



Distribution: Northwestern Peru. 



Boa constr i ctor sabogae (Barbour) 



I9O6 Epicrates saboqae Barbour, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 46: 226. Type-locality: Saboga Island, 



Panama, which is now spelled Taboga Island. 

 1951 Boa constrictor sabooae — Forcart , Herpetolog ica, 7: I99. 



Distribution; Taboga Island, Panama. 



