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Boa constrictor, Vaňkovka, Brno (2)🐍

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SpeciesBoidae
Reptiles

🐍Boa constrictor

Boa constrictor Linnaeus, 1758

الأصلة العاصرة وتسمى أيضاً البواء حمراء الذيل أو البواء الشائعة هو نوع كبير من الثعابين ثقيلة الجسم، وهي من الأنواع التي يتم الاحتفاظ بها وتربيتها في الأسر. تنتمي الأصلة العاصرة إلى فصيلة البوائيات وتعيش في المناطق الاستوائية في أمريكا الشمالية وأمريكا الجنوبية وبعض الجزر في الكاريبي. نمطها اللوني متنوّع للغاية وهو مميز أيضاً. معروف منها حالياً عشر نويعات على الرغم من أن بعضها مثير للجدل.

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≈ 1/18th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
3.53 kg
Body length
1.85 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
40 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Boa constrictor

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
3.53 kgrecord 35 kg · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
1.85 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
40 yearsrecord 40 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
125 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 35
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Activity cycle
Nocturnal
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Foraging mode
Mixed
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
No
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Danger to humans
harmless
SeaLifeBase
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Snout–vent length
1.66 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
3.5 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Boa constrictor yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyBoidae
  5. ›genusBoa
  6. ›speciesBoa constrictor
Full lineage
  1. superorderLepidosauria
  2. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  3. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  4. genusBoa
All 12 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  12. genusBoa
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ボアコンストリクター (ja), Kongeboa (nb), 紅尾蚺 (zh), Boa dusiciel (pl), Boa constrictor (fr), 보아 (ko) … and 24 more languages

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