Corallus cookii

Corallus cookii, also known as Cook's tree boa[2] or Cooke's tree boa,[3] is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Boidae. The species is endemic to the island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean. There are no recognized subspecies.[2]

Corallus cookii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Boidae
Genus:	Corallus
Species:	C. cookii
Binomial name
Corallus cookii Gray, 1842
Synonyms[1]
Corallus Cookii Gray, 1842 Corallus hortulanus Melanea Gray, 1849 Corallus cookii — Boulenger, 1893 Boa cooki — Ihering, 1911 Boa cooki — Griffin, 1916 Boa enydris cookii — Stull, 1935 Boa cookii — Stull, 1935 Corallus enydris cookii — Forcart, 1951 Corallus hortulanus cookii — Roze, 1966 Corallus hortulanus cooki — Stafford & Henderson, 1996 Corallus cooki — Henderson, 1997

Etymology

The specific name, cookii, is in honor of English artist and naturalist Edward William Cooke.[3]

Description

C. cookii is similar to C. hortulana and C. grenadensis, only smaller, with adults reaching a total length (including tail) of 5 feet (152 cm), and being mainly gray or brown in color. Not more than a few specimens exist in captivity.[4]

Geographic range

Endemic to the island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean, C. cookii is known only from a few locations on the island. The type locality given is "West Indies", which was restricted to "St. Vincent" by Henderson (1997).[1]

References

1. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
2. "Corallus cookii ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 14 July 2008.
3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Corallus cookii, p. 58).
4. Stafford PJ, Henderson RW (1996). Kaleidoscopic Tree Boas: The Genus Corallus of Tropical America. Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company. 120 pp. ISBN 0-89464-975-2.

Further reading

• Gray JE (1842). "Synopsis of the species of prehensile-tailed Snakes, or family Boidæ". Zoological Miscellany, London 2: 41–46. (Corallus cookii, new species, p. 42).
• Henderson RW (1997). "A Taxonomic Review of the Corallus hortulanus Complex of Neotropical Tree Boas". Caribb. J. Sci. 33 (3-4): 198–221.
• Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Corallus enydris cooki, p. 181).

External links

• Corallus cookii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 14 July 2008.