Emerald Tree Boa, (Corallus canina), Venomous Snake Mimicry.

The Emerald tree Boa, Corallus canina, is considered a venomous snake mimic in the areas that it is found in Northern South America , owing to it's color , head shape and size , in relation to it's thinner neck, and size of it's dental apparatus. Commonly this species is mistaken for Bothriopsis bilineata.

Habitat. Trees and bushes adjacent to water courses, swamps and marshes in rainforests.

Geographic Range. The Amazon Basin, e.g., Peru and Ecuador, east through Brazil and Bolivia to the Guianas.

Obs. Neonates are terra cota, reddish-orange or occasionly bluish-green in color.
Poster, A.J.Montejo and Bart Henzen (pictured) have bred this species in captivity on numerous occasion's.

Emerald Tree Boa, (Corallus canina), Venomous Snake Mimicry. Img5893s.th

Emerald Tree Boa, (Corallus canina), Venomous Snake Mimicry. Img5893s.th

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Can't see a reason to leave that in the Viperidae section.
Moved to -> your others
and by the way: Corallus caninus

Thank you Peter, for the sake of the formal system of Latin nomenclature we will stay with the species latest "official" designation and not each deviation proposed by well meaning and leading anatomist and systematists, be it Corallus canina , batesi, batesi Gray, etc. i stand corrected to use Corallus caninus.

The Emerald Tree Boa is confused in northern South America with The Two-striped forest pit-viper, Bothriopsis Bilineata,.

Distribution, Amazonian South America and the equatorial forest of Venezuela - Suriname.

Obs. There stands an isolated population in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil from the state of Bahia to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Campbell et.al). Enclosed i have included pics of a pair of "ultra rare" Atlantic Forest Two striped forest-pitvipers from the fringes of Jacare Pagua, in Rio de Janerio, Brazil, dated on the day of their fortunate discovery 37 meters apart , thought extinct in that area since 1963, this area is in the vicinity of a beach.
Emerald Tree Boa, (Corallus canina), Venomous Snake Mimicry. Bothriopsisbilenatamach.th

Emerald Tree Boa, (Corallus canina), Venomous Snake Mimicry. Bothriopsisbilenatamach.th

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This photo is an experiment i performed using temperature inversion and humidity variance using a common shower, to induce breeding in a pair of Corallus caninus, although unorthodox i produced 13 live babies.[img] Emerald Tree Boa, (Corallus canina), Venomous Snake Mimicry. 7569016230_f12ebcb2a5_n

Emerald Tree Boa, (Corallus canina), Venomous Snake Mimicry. 7569016230_f12ebcb2a5_n

AM LaMerde -x- BA 091505-1 by Zoobotanicals, on Flickr[/img][img] Emerald Tree Boa, (Corallus canina), Venomous Snake Mimicry. 7569037490_ac7c08a2f3_n

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Beautiful amazon basins!. I think you had mentioned in a previous post (?) about another B. bilineata mimic- that being Xenodon werneri. I have only seen these in pics, but I would think twice before handling one of those.

Michael

Yes, your correct that was Xenodon werneri, Micheal and always handle any Xenodon species with care.
Below is one of the specimens of Corallus caninus that i produced from the above experiment at 2 yrs. of age.

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Emerald Tree Boa, (Corallus canina), Venomous Snake Mimicry. 7617023040_72bd411d5b_z

P1010719 by Zoobotanicals, on Flickr[/img]
Emerald Tree Boa, (Corallus canina), Venomous Snake Mimicry. 7617022942_d5b4642d5a_z

P1010715 by Zoobotanicals, on Flickr

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