Southern rubber boa

Charina umbratica, known commonly as the southern rubber boa, is a species of snake in the family Boidae.[3][4] The species is endemic to the United States, in southern California.

Southern rubber boa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Boidae
Genus:	Charina
Species:	C. umbratica
Binomial name
Charina umbratica Klauber, 1943
Southern rubber boa range[1]
Synonyms[2]
Charina bottae umbratica Klauber, 1943 Charina umbratica — Rodríguez-Robles et al., 2001

Conservation status

As of April 2017, the southern rubber boa was listed as a state threatened species in the California Natural Diversity Database.[5]

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey (2017). "Southern Rubber Boa (Charina umbratica) rSRBOx_CONUS_2001v1 Range Map". Gap Analysis Project. doi:10.5066/F7MK6BZ1.
2. "Charina umbratica ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
3. "Charina". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
4. Banks RC, McDiarmid RW, Gardner AL, Starnes WC (2004). Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
5. California, State of. "Threatened and Endangered Reptiles - California Department of Fish and Wildlife". www.dfg.ca.gov. Retrieved 2017-05-12.

Further reading

• Klauber LM (1943). "The Subspecies of the Rubber Snake, Charina ". Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 10 (7): 83–90. (Charina bottae umbratica, new subspecies, pp. 83–85).
• Rodríguez-Robles, Javier A.; Stewart, Glenn R.; Papenfuss, Theodore J (2001). "Mitochondrial DNA-Based Phylogeography of North American Rubber Boas, Charina bottae (Serpentes: Boidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 18 (2): 227–237.