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The Round Island burrowing boa had an extremely small range of only 1.5 square kilometres (0.58 sq mi). Its habitats were hardwood forests and palm savanna. In the past it was found in Mauritius on Gunner's Quoin, Flat Island, Round Island, and Ile de la Passe. [3] It survived the longest on Round Island, where it was last recorded.
Common names: Mauritius snakes, [2] Round Island boas, splitjaw snakes. The Bolyeriidae are a family [2] of snakes native to Mauritius and a few islands around it, especially Round Island.
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Bahasa Indonesia; Italiano; עברית ... This species is known by the common names Calabar ground boa, burrowing boa, [11] and Calabar boa. It is also known as the ...
Erycinae is a subfamily of stout-bodied snakes, all of which are competent burrowers.The largest, E. johnii, rarely exceeds 120 cm (47 in) in total length (including tail).
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The Round Island boa (Casarea dussumieri), [4] also known commonly as the Round Island keel-scaled boa [1] and the Round Island ground boa, [1] is a species of nonvenomous snake in the monotypic genus Casarea in the family Bolyeriidae. [5] [6] The species is endemic to Round Island, Mauritius. No subspecies are currently recognized. [4] [6]
Obsolete classification schemes—such as that of Boulenger (1890)—place pythons in Pythoninae, a subfamily of the boa family, Boidae. [1] However, despite a superficial K-means clustering resemblance to boas, pythons are more closely related to the sunbeam snakes ( Xenopeltis ) and the Mexican burrowing python ( Loxocemus ).