#dwarf boa

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Happy 12 yrs Cinder! Here's to many more 🐍🎉

[herpsandbirds]

Oaxacan Dwarf Boa (Exiliboa placata), family Boidae, Oaxaca, Mexico

Endemic to southern Mexico, this small burrowing (fossorial) boa is the only member of its genus.

photograph by Laura Bok

[this-great-world]

Cuban Dwarf Boa

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New species of dwarf boa discovered in Ecuador to be named after Indigenous activist

The new species is unusual for having a "vestigial pelvis", a characteristic of primitive snakes, taken as evidence by some that snakes descended from lizards that lost their limbs over millions of years.

Scientists have discovered a new species of dwarf boa in the Ecuadorian Amazon and named it after an Indigenous activist.

Up to 20-centimetres long and with skin colourings similar to those of the Boa constrictor, the previously unknown snake has been named Tropidophis cacuangoae.

The second part of the name honours early-20th-century Indigenous rights activist Dolores Cacuango, according to Ecuador's environment ministry.

[lancedoncrimsonwings]

Viv redecorating with Pippin the Central American Boa

Well someone knocked off his sky hide today....

Funnily enough, Pippin does know how the lock works and will rest his head on it when he wants to come out.

Heeeey Mr. grumpy gills

"FIX IT MA!!"

[ghostly-gator-snek]

Precious new baby

[theconsofbeingawallweed]

Sai Sai

[shinyx2]

New dwarf boa found in Ecuadoran Amazon

Scientists have discovered a new species of dwarf boa in the Ecuadoran Amazon and named it after an Indigenous activist.

‘ The species is unusual for having a "vestigial pelvis" characteristic of primitive snakes and taken as evidence by some that snakes descended from lizards that lost their limbs over millions of years. ‘