Calabar python at Louisville Zoo, Louisville, Kentucky
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
Squamata
Suborder:
Serpentes
Family:
Boidae
Genus:
Calabaria Gray, 1858
Species:
C. reinhardtii
Binomial name
Calabaria reinhardtii
(Schlegel, 1851)
Synonyms[2]
Eryx reinhardtii — Schlegel, 1851
Calabaria fusca — Gray, 1858
Rhoptrura reinhardtii — W. Peters, 1861
Roptrura petiti — Sauvage, 1884
Calabaria reinhardti — Boulenger, 1893
Calabaria reinhardtii — Stimson, 1969
[Charina] reinhardtii — Kluge, 1993
Common names: Calabar ground boa, burrowing boa,[3] Calabar boa, more.
The Calabar python (Calabaria reinhardtii) is a species of non-venomous snake in the family Boidae. The species is endemic to West and Central Africa.[4] It is the only species in its genus.[5]
^Luiselli L, Penner J, Rödel M, Gonwouo NL, Kusamba C, LeBreton M (2021). "Boa nebulosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T13264749A13264760. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
^McDiarmid, R.W. [in French]; Campbell, J.A.; Touré, T.A. (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference Vol. 1. Washington, DC: Herpetologists' League. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
^Mehrtens, J.M. (1987). Living Snakes of the World in Color. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. ISBN 0-8069-6460-X.
^Cite error: The named reference RDB was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Calabaria at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 8 January 2021.
Common names: Calabar ground boa, burrowing boa, Calabar boa, more. The Calabarpython (Calabaria reinhardtii) is a species of non-venomous snake in the...
species; the Pacific ground boa (C. carinata) Calabaria type species; the Calabarpython (C. reinhardtii) Charina type species; the northern rubber boa (C. bottae)...
or Malagasy boas (Acrantophis and Sanzinia) from Madagascar, and the Calabarpython (Calabaria) from tropical West-Central Africa. Many snake biologists...
rubber boa, C. umbratica to be a subspecies of C. bottae. Although the Calabarpython, Calabaria reinhardtii has been included in Charina, recent phylogenetic...
October 23, 2014, the zoo announced that their 11-year-old reticulated python, Thelma, had produced six healthy baby snakes in 2012 without any prior...
Blue-bellied black snake, Pseudechis guttatus Brown Rat Snake, Zaocys fuscus Calabarpython, Calabaria reinhardtii Common house gecko, Hemidactylus frenatus Dwarf...
Xenocalamus Family Boidae Genus Acrantophis Genus Boa Genus Calabaria - Calabarpython Genus Candoia Genus Charina Genus Chilabothrus Genus Corallus Genus...
the Efik creation story. Works such as Rosalind Hackett's religion in Calabar discuss some Efik deities. Percy Talbot's "Life in Southern Nigeria" is...
of reptiles, some with Lütken. In 1848, Hermann Schlegel named the Calabar "python", Calabaria reinhardtii, in his honor. Reinhardt's caecilian, Mimosiphonops...
the region. Through contact with Europeans, early harbour towns such as Calabar, Badagry and Bonny emerged along the coast after 1480, which did business...
Uburutu people of present-day Nigeria, would administer the poisonous Calabar bean (Physostigma venenosum, known as esere in Efik), which contains physostigmine...
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Electrical /Electronic Engineering. In 1980, Ekpenyong attended The Polytechnic Calabar for a Higher National Diploma in Electrical and Electronic Engineering...
Halicephalobus gingivalis brain soil-contaminated wounds Loa loa filariasis, Calabar swellings Loa loa filaria connective tissue, lungs, eye blood (Giemsa,...
and the main source of labour came to be Igbo smuggled in canoes from Calabar in Nigeria. This resolution to the worker shortage allowed Fernando Pó...
Akamkpa Local Government Area. It is located roughly 42 kilometers from Calabar, the state capital, and shares an eastern border with Cameroon's Korup...
of palm oil and slaves. Such city-states included Opobo, Bonny, Nembe, Calabar, as well as other slave trading city-states controlled by the Ijaw, Efik...
fantasy Historical fiction Alternate history Albertz 2003, pp. 69–70. "Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) - Terry Jones | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods,...
southern routes are Makurdi – Otukpo – Enugu and Makurdi – Yandev – Adikpo – Calabar roads. Traffic from the west comes through Makurdi – (3) Naka – Adoka Ankpa...
"Predation on a Wild Slow Loris (Nycticebus coucang) by a Reticulated Python (Python reticulatus)". Folia Primatologica. 70 (6): 362–364. doi:10.1159/000021719...
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