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Northern Rosy Boa
Lichanura orcutti Stejneger, 1889

SSAR 9th Edition 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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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arizona California Nevada

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

Selected References:
1889 Stejneger, Leonhard H. Description of two new species of snakes from California. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 12(766):95-99
1891 Stejneger, Leonhard H. On the snakes of the Californian genus Lichanura. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 14(878):511-515
1931 Klauber, Laurence M. A new subspecies of the California Boa, with notes on the genus Lichanura. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 6(20):305-318
1933 Klauber, Laurence M. Notes on Lichanura. Copeia 1933(4):214-215
1980 Ottley, John R., R. W. Murphy, and G. V. Smith. The taxonomic status of the rosy boa Lichanura roseofusca (Serpentes: Boidae). The Great Basin Naturalist 40(1):59-62
1982 Yingling, R. Peter. Lichanura, L. trivirgata. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (294):1-2
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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