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Three-lined Boa
Lichanura trivirgata Cope, 1861

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 The authority was corrected, and the parentheses were removed.

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arizona California

First instance(s) of published English names:
Many-scaled Boa (Lichanura myriolepis: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Rosy Boa (Lichanura roseifusca: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Three-lined Boa (Lichanura trivirgata: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); California Boa (Lichanura roseofusca: Van Denburgh, John. 1897. The reptiles of the Pacific Coast and Great Basin: An account of the species known to inhabit California, and Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Nevada. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 5():9-236); San Lucan Boa (Licahnura trivirgata: Van Denburgh, John. 1922. The Reptiles of Western North America: An Account of the Species Known to Inhabit California and Oregon, Washinton, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, British Columbia, Sonora, and Lower California. Volume I. Lizards. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 556pp.); Desert Boa (Lichanura roseofusca gracia: Schmidt, Karl Peterson and D. D. Davis. 1941. Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. C.P. Putnam and Sons, New York. 365pp.); California Boa (Lichanura roseofusca roseofusca: Schmidt, Karl Peterson and D. D. Davis. 1941. Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. C.P. Putnam and Sons, New York. 365pp.); 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.); Desert Boa (Lichanura roseofusca gracia: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); California Boa (Lichanura roseofusca roseofusca: 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:
1861 Cope, Edward D. Contributions to the ophiology of Lower California, Mexico and Central America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 13:292-306
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
2017 Bezy, Robert L., Philip C. Rosen, Thomas R. Van Devender, and Erik F. Enderson. Southern distributional limits of the Sonoran Desert herpetofauna along the mainland coast of northwestern Mexico Mesoamerican Herpetology 4(1):138-167

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