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Charina bottae

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Noun1.Charina bottae - boa of grasslands and woodlands of western North AmericaCharina bottae - boa of grasslands and woodlands of western North America; looks and feels like rubber with tail and head of similar shape
rubber boa, tow-headed snake
boa - any of several chiefly tropical constrictors with vestigial hind limbs
Charina, genus Charina - boas of western North America
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Genus Charina Gray, 1849 The Rubber Boa, genus Charina (Squamata:Boidae), is composed of a single Miocene species, Charina probottae, that occurs from the early Hemingfordian to the early Hemphillian of western North America (Holman 1979; Parmley and Holman 1995) and a single modern species, Charina bottae that is restricted to the United States west of the Rocky Mountains and in extreme southwestern Canada (Stebbins 1985).
Early Hemingfordian (Early Miocene) Squamate Reptiles from the Quarry ... by Holman, J. Alan / Michigan Academician
 
 
 
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