Candoia est genus Boidarum (ingentium Serpentium innoxiarum, quae veneno carent) plerumque in Nova Guinea et Melanesia endemicarum. Quattuor species agnoscuntur.[2]


Subphylum : Vertebrata 
Classis : Reptilia 
Ordo : Squamata 
Subordo : Serpentes 
Familia : Boidae 
Subfamilia : Boinae 
Genus : Candoia 
Gray, 1842
   
Synonyma
* Cenchris - Gray, 1831
  • Cenchrus - Swainson, 1839
  • Candoia - Gray, 1842
  • Tropidoboa - Hombron & Jacquinot In Jacquinot & Guichenot, 1842
  • Enygrus - A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844
  • Erebophis - Günther, 1877
  • Candoia - Forcart, 1951[1]

Descriptio

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Huius generis species corpus teres et grave habere solent, caput triangulà planàque formà, naso sursum torto. Colores et exemplaria multo variantur, sed plurima sunt fulva ad nigra. Adulta a 60 cm ad 1.8 m variari possunt. Mares sunt feminis minores et a prominentibus calcaribus cloacalibus discernuntur.

Distributio

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A Samoa et Tokelau ad occidentem per Melanesiam ad Novam Guineam et Moluccas Insulas inveniuntur.[1]

Omnes primo sunt nocturni.

Anuris et Lacertiliis praecipue vescuntur.

Species[2] Auctor[2] Subsp.*[2] Nomen triviale[3] Distributio geograhica[1]
C. aspera (Günther, 1877) 0 "Boida Neoguineensis" Nova Guinea (Irian Jaya et Papua Nova Guinea sub 1300 m), inclusis proximis insulis Waigeu, Batanta, Misool, Salawati, Biak et Japen in Sinu Geelvink, Seleo, Valise, Karkar, Umboi, Manus, Los Negros, Lou, Baluan, Rambatyo in Archipelago Manus, Nova Britannia, Insula Ducis Eboracensis, Nova Hibernia, Nova Hannovera (insula) in Archipelago Bismarckiano.
C. bibroni (Duméril & Bibron, 1844) 1 "Boida Vitiensis" Melanesia et Polynesia, inclusis orientalibus Solomonis insulis (Olu Malau, Reef, Rennell, insulis Sancti Christophori, Sanctae Annae, Sanctae Crucis, Bio, Bellona, Trium Sororum, Ugi, Vanikolo), Banks (Vanua Lava), Novis Hebridibus, cunctis tribus Fidelitatis insulis, Vitiensibus (Rotuma, Iasava archipelago, Lau archipelago), Samoanis occidentalibus (Saviis et Upolu insulis), Samoa Americana (Tau).
C. carinataT (Schneider, 1801) 1 "Boida Pacifica" Indonesia, inclusa septenrtionali Celebis paeninsula, insulis Sangihe et Telaud, septentrionales Moluccae insulae (Ceramia, Amboina, Haruku, Saparua, Banda, Goram, Tanimbar), Misool, Batanta, Salawatti, Anaguar (Saipan) et Belavia (saltem in Koror insula). Nova Guinea: insulis sinùs Geelvink et ad litus septentrionalem, inclusis Liki, Djamna, Karkar, Umboi insulis. Manus proximisque insulis. Archipelago Bismarciano, inclusis Mussaviis insulis et Tench. Insulis Provinciae Sinùs Milne, saltem Samarai, Kiriwina, Kitava, Goodenough, Fergusson, Dobu, Normanby, Slade, Misima, Woodlark, Sudest, Rossel. Insulis Buca, Bougainville proximisque. Salomonis insulis, inclusis Santa Cruce, Rennell, Bellona.
C. superciliosa (Günther, 1863) 0 "Boida Belaviensis" Belavia.[4]

*) Subspecies typica omissa.
T) Species typica.

Nexus interni

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 R. W. McDiarmid, J. A. Campbell, T. Touré, Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1 (Herpetologists' League, 1999, ISBN 1-893777-00-6 [series], ISBN 1-893777-01-4 [volumen]).
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Lapsus in citando: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named ITIS
  3. Mehrtens JM. 1987. Living Snakes of the World in Color. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. ISBN 0-8069-6460-X.
  4. Formula:NRDB genus

Nexus externi

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  Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Candoiam spectant.