Rubber Boa Snake California

The southern rubber boa subspecies is currently listed as threatened by the ca df g and therefore protected by california law although evidence exists that they are abundant and range further than currently published.

Rubber boa snake california.

The rubber boa has retained the club like tail of its erycine ancestors. The rubber boa charina bottae is a non venomous mild mannered snake only found in british columbia and the us north west the name charina is derived from greek meaning graceful. I caught a rubber boa one summer while on a week long boy scout camping trip to camp diamond o in the california sierra foothills. Popular pets these live bearing snakes come in a variety of natural colors and variations as well as a number of morphs and cultivars.

I later discovered that the scout i shared a tent with took it home. For questions on keeping or breeding rosy sand rubber boas please check out the rosy sand rubber boa forum or to look at photos uploaded by users or to upload your own check out the boa photo gallery. Rubber boas are thick bodied blunt tailed slow moving snakes found in moist areas in grassland chaparral woodland and forest. The california departent of fish and wildlife described the range of the southern rubber boa charina umbratica in a 2004 document which has now been removed.

A true boa constrictor the rubber boa belongs to a famous family of snakes. 1 23 2 47 oz 35 70 g color. This family includes among others reticulated pythons and anacondas. Rubber boas do not have venom that is dangerous to most humans.

Coastal rubber boa northern rubber boa two headed snake. 2 3 in 2001 a paper 9 was published in which it was proposed that the southern rubber boa is a separate species. It had to be released before i returned home. As evidence of this relationship the rubber boa has tiny vestigial remnant limbs on either side of its vent.

The rubber boa is a snake that actually looks like a long elongated rubber tube. These tiny spurs are more obvious on males than females. Active on the surface mostly at night often at low temperatures for snakes. The rosy boa charina trivirgata or lichanura trivirgata is a species of snake in the family boidae the rosy boa is native to the american southwest and baja california and sonora in mexico the rosy boa is one of only two species in the boa family native to the united states the other being the rubber boa charina bottae.

Young are born pinkish but darken as they age. Dark brown to tan back. The southern rubber boa is found only in a few disjunct areas of california. 15 33 inches 38 84 cm weight.