Rubber Boa Snake California

15 33 inches 38 84 cm weight.

Rubber boa snake california.

Popular pets these live bearing snakes come in a variety of natural colors and variations as well as a number of morphs and cultivars. Rubber boas are thick bodied blunt tailed slow moving snakes found in moist areas in grassland chaparral woodland and forest. Ventral side yellow olive green to orange. As evidence of this relationship the rubber boa has tiny vestigial remnant limbs on either side of its vent.

The southern rubber boa is found only in a few disjunct areas of california. The rubber boa is a primitive snake compared to its much larger relatives native to latin america which include the boa constrictor emerald tree boa and green anaconda. 1 23 2 47 oz 35 70 g color. 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.

A true boa constrictor the rubber boa belongs to a famous family of snakes. I later discovered that the scout i shared a tent with took it home. 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. Rubber boas do not have venom that is dangerous to most humans.

Active on the surface mostly at night often at low temperatures for snakes. The rubber boa has retained the club like tail of its erycine ancestors. These tiny spurs are more obvious on males than females. Coastal rubber boa northern rubber boa two headed snake.

The southern rubber boa is known from several localities in the san bernardino mountains in san bernardino county near idyllwild in riverside county and on mount pinos in kern county. 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. The rubber boa is a snake that actually looks like a long elongated rubber tube. This family includes among others reticulated pythons and anacondas.

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. 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. 2 3 in 2001 a paper 9 was published in which it was proposed that the southern rubber boa is a separate species. Dark brown to tan back.