Boulenger's pipe snake
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Cylindrophiidae
Genus: Cylindrophis
Species:
C. boulengeri
Binomial name
Cylindrophis boulengeri
Roux, 1911

Boulenger's pipe snake (Cylindrophis boulengeri) is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Cylindrophiidae.[2] The species is endemic to Indonesia.[3]

Etymology

The specific epithet, boulengeri, is in honor of Belgian-British herpetologist George Albert Boulenger.[4]

Geographic range

Within Indonesia C. boulengeri is found on the Babar Islands, Timor, and Wetar.[3]

Description

C. boulengeri may attain a total length (including tail) of 55 cm (22 in). Dorsally, it is black; ventrally, it has alternating dark gray and yellowish crossbands.[5]

Reproduction

C. boulengeri is viviparous.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Stubbs, A.; Iskandar, D. (2021). "Cylindrophis boulengeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T42492692A42492696. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T42492692A42492696.en. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  2. ↑ "Cylindrophis ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 17 August 2007.
  3. 1 2 3 Cylindrophis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 17 August 2007.
  4. ↑ Beolens Bo, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Cylindrophis boulengeri, p. 34).
  5. ↑ de Rooij N (1917). The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. II. Ophidia. Leiden: E.J. Brill Ltd. xiv + 334 pp. (Cylindrophis boulengeri, p. 38).

Further reading

  • McDowell SB (1975). "A Catalogue of the Snakes of New Guinea and the Solomons, with Special Reference to Those in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Part II. Anilioidea and Pythoninae". Journal of Herpetology 9 (1): 1–79. (Cylindrophis boulengeri, p. 26).
  • Roux J (1911). "Elbert-Sunda-Expedition des Frankfurter Vereins für Geographie und Statistik. Reptilien und Amphibien ". Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere, Jena 30: 495–508. (Cylindrophis boulengeri, new species, p. 500). (in German).


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