Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: December 31st, 2022.
 
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Genus
Calabaria
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Calabar Boa
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Erdboa, (Erdpython)
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Vestafrikansk Jordboa
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1858 |  |
Calabaria Gray (type species: Calabaria fusca Gray 1858) |
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Rhoptrura Peters (type species: Eryx reinhardtii Schlegel 1851) |
Contents:
1 species, which is not endemic.
Endemism: 0%  100%
Remarks:
Kluge (1993a) regarded Calabaria as a synonym of the New World genus
Charina, but Vidal & David (2004) showed that Calabaria is genetically distant from the American species of the genus
Charina and consequently revalidated the genus Calabaria. Furthermore, they placed it in a separate family, Calabariidae Vidal & David 2004 (this family name was already proposed by Dowling & Jenner 1988). Some other authors have also recognized Calabariidae as a separate family (e.g., Wiens, Hutter, Mulcahy, Noonan, Townsend, Sites & Reeder 2012; Pyron, Reynolds & Burbrink 2014).
Distribution:
As for the single species.
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Calabaria reinhardtii
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Calabar Boa, Calabar Sand Boa, (West African Burrowing Python, Calabar Ground Python)
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Erdboa, (Erdpython)
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Vestafrikansk Jordboa, Vestafrikansk Gravende Boa, (Gravende Pyton)
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Eryx reinhardtii Schlegel |
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Rhoptrura reinhardtii Peters 1861 |
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Calabaria reinhardti Boulenger 1893 |
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Charina reinhardtii Kluge 1993 |
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Calabaria fusca Gray (Stimson 1969) |
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Rhoptrura petiti Sauvage (Stimson 1969) |
Remarks:
Angola is included in the distribution based on Frade (1963) and Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn & Bauer (2018), who both listed a locality in Cabinda.
However, Branch (2018) stated that the species is unknown from the country.
Distribution:
Angola
(Cabinda),
Benin,
Cameroon,
Central African Republic,
Congo-Brazzaville,
Congo-Kinshasa,
Equatorial Guinea
(Bioko,
Rio Muni),
Gabon,
Ghana,
Guinea,
Ivory Coast,
Liberia,
Nigeria,
Sierra Leone,
Togo.
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