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Northern Rosy Boa
Lichanura orcutti Stejneger, 1889

Current SSAR Comments:
“Northern” was added to the English name to differentiate it from the English name of the genus. The taxonomic authority was corrected by removing the parentheses.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
California Boa (Lichanura rosefusca: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1889 Stejneger, Leonhard. Description of two new species of snakes from California. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 12(766):95-99
1891 Stejneger, Leonhard. On the snakes of the Californian genus Lichanura. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 14(878):511-515
2008 Wood, Dustin A., Robert N. Fisher, and Tod W. Reeder. Novel patterns of historical isolation, dispersal, and secondary contact across Baja California in the Rosy Boa (Lichanura trivirgata). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46(2):484-502

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