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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: December 31st, 2022.


Taxonomy of the family Boidae
Bibliography of the genus Charina
Biodiversity of the family Boidae








Genus
Charina

Rubber Boas

Gummiboas

Gummiboaer

1849 Charina Gray (type species: Tortrix bottae Blainville 1835)
1852 Wenona Baird & Girard (type species: Wenona plumbea Baird & Girard 1852)
1862 Pseudoeryx Jan [not Pseudoeryx Fitzinger 1826 (Serpentes)] (type species: Tortrix bottae Blainville 1835)
Contents: 2 species, of which 1 (50.0%) is endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Remarks: Kluge (1993) regarded Calabaria as a synonym of Charina (see remarks under Calabaria). Placed in a separate family, Charinidae, by Pyron, Reynolds & Burbrink (2014).
Distribution: Canada (British Columbia), USA (California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming).

Charina bottae

Northern Rubber Boa

Nördliche Gummiboa

Nordlig Gummiboa

1835 Tortrix bottae Blainville
Charina bottae Gray 1849
Pseudoeryx bottae Jan 1862
1852 Wenona plumbea Baird & Girard (Stimson 1969)
Charina plumbea Cope 1861
Charina bottae plumbea Garman 1884
1852 Wenona isabella Baird & Girard (Stimson 1969)
1889 Charina brachyops Cope (Stimson 1969)
1920 Charina bottae utahensis Van Denburgh

Other common names:
bottae: Pacific Rubber Boa
utahensis: Rocky Mountain Rubber Boa
Remarks: Previously included umbratica.
Distribution: Canada (British Columbia), USA (California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming).


Charina umbratica

Southern Rubber Boa

Südliche Gummiboa

Sydlig Gummiboa

1943 Charina bottae umbratica Klauber
Charina umbratica Rodriguez-Robles, Stewart & Papenfuss 2001

Remarks: Rodriguez-Robles, Stewart & Papenfuss (2001) regarded umbratica as a separate species, followed by others (Crother, Boundy & al. 2003; Crother, Boundy, Burbrink & Campbell in Crother (ed.) 2008), but already Erwin (1974) suspected umbratica to be a separate species.
Distribution: USA (California).