Mona Island boa

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Mona Island boa

Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
CITES Appendix I (CITES)^[2]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Boidae
Genus:	Chilabothrus
Species:	C. monensis
Binomial name
*Chilabothrus monensis* (Zenneck, 1898)
Synonyms
Epicrates monensis Zenneck, 1898 Epicrates gracilis monensis — Stimson, 1969 Epicrates monensis — Schwartz & Henderson, 1991 Chilabothrus monensis — Reynolds et al., 2013 Epicrates monensis — Wallach et al., 2014 ^[3]

Chilabothrus monensis, also called commonly the Virgin Islands boa in the Virgin Islands,^[4] and the Mona Island boa elsewhere, is a species of snake in the family Boidae.^[5] The species is native to the West Indies. There are no subspecies.

Distribution and habitat

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C. monensis is found in the Puerto Rican archipelago, around Mona Island and Cayo Diablo near Puerto Rico, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and in the British Virgin Islands: Tortola, Great Camanoe, Necker and Virgin Gorda.^[6]

References

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^ Rodriguez, C.; Mayer, G.C.; Tolson, P.J. (2021). "Chilabothrus monensis ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T7823A18979328. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T7823A18979328.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
^ Species Chilabothrus monensis at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
^ Carlson, Suzanne (May 7, 2019). "Epstein building compound on Great St. James". The Virgin Islands Daily News. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
^ "Epicrates". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
^ Schwartz, Albert, Thomas, Richard (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Epicrates monensis, p. 185).

Taxon identifiers
Chilabothrus monensis	Wikidata: Q2713983 Wikispecies: Chilabothrus monensis ADW: Epicrates_monensis CoL: TZLB GBIF: 8812600 iNaturalist: 539462 ITIS: 951211 IUCN: 7823 NCBI: 51748 Open Tree of Life: 163247 RD: monensis
Epicrates monensis	Wikidata: Q24248510 ARKive: epicrates-monensis GBIF: 2465231 iNaturalist: 32257 IRMNG: 10483092 ITIS: 174329 Observation.org: 99405 Open Tree of Life: 163247 Species+: 7074

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