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Species of snake

Eryx borrii
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Boidae
Genus: Eryx
Species: E. borrii
Binomial name
Eryx borrii
Lanza & Nistri, 2005

Eryx borrii is a species of snake in the family Boidae. The species is endemic to Somalia.

Etymology

The specific name, borrii, is in honor of Italian zoologist Marco Borri.

Geographic range

E. borrii is found in northern Somalia.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of E. borrii is shrubland, at altitudes around 400 m (1,300 ft).

Description

E. borrii is similar in morphology to E. somalicus. However, E. borri is more slender and has a higher number of ventral scales (193 as opposed to 163 in E. somalicus).

Behavior

E. borrii is terrestrial, semifossorial, crepuscular and nocturnal.

Reproduction

E. borrii is ovoviviparous.

References

  1. ^ Spawls, S. (2021). "Eryx borrii ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T13264776A13264778. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  2. ^ Eryx borrii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 16 December 2014.
  3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Eryx borrii, p. 32).

Further reading

  • Lanza B, Nistri A (2005). "Somali Boidae (genus Eryx Daudin 1803) and Pythonidae (genus Python Daudin 1803) (Reptilia Serpentes)". Tropical Zoology 18: 67–136. (Eryx borrii, new species, pp. 95–99, Figures 15–18).
  • Reynolds RG, Henderson RW (2018). "Boas of the World (Superfamily Booidae): A Checklist with Systematic, Taxonomic, and Conservation Assessments". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 162 (1): 1–58. (Eryx borrii, p. 33).
  • Spawls S, Mazuch T, Mohammad A (2023). Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. London, Oxford, New York, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury Wildlife. 640 pp. ISBN 978-3899734706.


Taxon identifiers
Eryx borrii


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