Epicrates striatus
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Epicrates striatus, known commonly as the Hispaniolan boa, is a species of snake
in the Boidae family.
Snake
Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...
in the Boidae family.
Subspecies
Eight subspecies are recognized including the nominate race:- Epicrates striatus striatus (Fischer, 1856)
- Epicrates striatus ailurus Sheplan & Schwartz, 1974
- Epicrates striatus exagistus Sheplan & Schwartz, 1974
- Epicrates striatus fosteri BarbourThomas BarbourThomas Barbour was an American herpetologist. From 1927 until 1946, he was director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology founded in 1859 by Louis Agassiz at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
, 1941 - Epicrates striatus fowleri Sheplan & Schwartz, 1974
- Epicrates striatus mccraniei Sheplan & Schwartz, 1974
- Epicrates striatus strigilatus (CopeEdward Drinker CopeEdward Drinker Cope was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, Cope distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science; he published his first scientific paper at the age of nineteen...
, 1863) - Epicrates striatus warreni Sheplan & Schwartz, 1974