Northern Rubber Boa Charina bottae  (Blainville, 1835)

Taxonomic Comments:

Rodriguez-Robles, Stewart, and Papenfuss (2001 Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 18(2): 227-237), using mtDNA, concluded that the allopatric southern populations of this serpent deserved recognition as a distinct species, and resurrected for them the name Charina umbratica Klauber 1943. The common name becomes Southern Rubber Boa, as first proposed by Conant et al. (1956). Collins & Taggart (2002 Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians. Fifth Edition) submitted for consideration the proposal by Rodriguez-Robles, Stewart, & Papenfuss (2001 op. cit.) to a snake systematist group composed of Frank T. Burbrink, Jeff Camper, Harry W. Greene, L. Lee Grismer, Robin Lawson, James R. McCranie, Andrew H. Price, Javier Rodriguez-Robles, and Samuel S. Sweet, and they agreed.