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Boa constrictor

Boa constrictor

Abgottschlange(+65)·Linnaeus, 1758

GBIF:299404879

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GEOGRAPHY

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REGIONS

Geographic Distribution(1)

Colombia (Valle del Cauca), Venezuela (Merida [HR 27: 88], Isla Margarita), Guyana, French French Guiana, Suriname, Peru (Pasco etc.), Bolivia, Brazil (Amapá, Pará, Rondonia, Roraima, Bahia, Sergipe, RO, Amazonas, Pará, Pernambuco, Paraíba, Distrito Federal, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Paraná, Piauí, Mato Grosso, Goiás, S Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte), Argentina, Paraguay

DATA

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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions. Available in 6 languages.

deuAbgottschlangedeuporAnacondaporAneryArabesqueengArgentine Boa Constrictor [occidentalis]eng+61 more

Vernacular (common) names are the everyday names used for a species in different languages and regions. A single species may have dozens of common names worldwide. This taxon has names in 6 languages.

deuAbgottschlange
deu
porAnaconda
por
Anery
Arabesque
engArgentine Boa Constrictor [occidentalis]
eng
engAtlantic Boa [atlantica]
eng
Avalanche
Blizzard
Blood
engBoa Constrictor
eng
fraBoa constricteur
fra
porBoiuçu
por
Camel
porCobra-de-Veado
por
Coral Albino
porCtaia
por
engDominican Boa Constrictor [pnebulosa]
eng
Fire
Ghost
Hytec
IMG
Inca
porJauacanga
por
porJiboia
por
Jiboia Atlântica [atlantica]
porJiboia-Branca
por
porJiboia-Cinzenta
por
porJiboia-da-Cauda-Vermelha
por
porJiboia-do-Cerrado
por
Jungle
porKuong-Kuong
por
Leopard
Leucistic
engLong-Tailed Boa Constrictor [longicauda]
eng
Marron
spaMatacaballos
spa
Moonglow
Motley
Onyx
engOrton’s Boa Constrictor [ortonii]
eng
Paradigm
Paradigm
Pearl
Pewter
Pink
Prodigy
engRed-Tailed Boa Constrictor [constrictor]
eng
engRed-tailed Boa
eng
Roswell
porSalamanta-Boi
por
Salmon
engShort-Tailed Boa [amarali]
eng
Snow
Squaretail
porSuaçu
por
Sunglow
Sunset
engTet’chien or St. Lucian Boa [orophias]
eng
spaTragavenado
spa
albino
spaboa
spa
spagüio
spa
jaguar
nobkongeboa
nob
spamacaurel
spa
spasarura
spa

CLASSIFICATION

Taxonomic Classification Tree

EukaryotaAnimaliaChordataVertebrataGnathostomataOsteichthyesTetrapodaReptiliaSquamataSerpentesAlethinophidiaBoidaeBoinaeBoaBoa constrictor

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Source Information

Catalogue of Life

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The Catalogue of Life is building a comprehensive catalogue of all known species on Earth. It offers two types of releases that reflect different levels of quality. The Base Release is curated and verified by experts specifically for COL. The eXtended Release (COL XR) builds on the Base Release 2026-05-11 (COL26.5) by programmatically integrating additional data sources. It integrates information from 61504 overlapping taxonomic and nomenclatural global, regional, national and management data sources (checklists) as well as originating from digitised literature available in Catalogue of Life's infrastructure ChecklistBank. New names and other data included in the COL XR are indicated with the XR icon. This release addresses several gaps of the Base Release and also enriches the existing names with information such as authorships, references, and vernacular names. It also adds molecular data, such as barcode index numbers or operational taxonomic units, to the Catalogue of Life. Higher taxonomy is being added only in selected groups with important gaps. Meanwhile, the information from the global data sources of the Catalogue of Life Base Release remains unmodified. This enhanced process is continuously evolving and undergoing quality control checks by COL editors and its community. Due to its programmatic nature as well as the taxonomic and nomenclatural differences among the data sources used, some issues may arise. We therefore caution the user, and invite everyone to help log data issues in the [COL’s data GitHub repository](https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/data/issues/new?template=xcol-content-feedback.md). We will do our best to resolve these issues as soon as possible.

Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Abreu, C., Acero P, A., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (2026-05-15 XR). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgxsq

CC BYPublished 5/15/2026View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
299404879
Dataset Key
7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
2464899
Taxon ID
M7TX
Last Crawled
5/28/2026
Last Interpreted
6/4/2026
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