Charina bottae


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Noun1.Charina bottae - boa of grasslands and woodlands of western North AmericaCharina bottae - boa of grasslands and woodlands of western North America; looks and feels like rubber with tail and head of similar shape
rubber boa, tow-headed snake
boa - any of several chiefly tropical constrictors with vestigial hind limbs
Charina, genus Charina - boas of western North America
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Reverse thermoregulatory patterns in nocturnal snakes have been recorded in a small temperate boid, the rubber boa (Charina bottae), and in a nocturnal elapid from southeastern Australia, the broad-headed snake (Hoplocephalus bungaroides).
Activty patterns of the desert nightsnake (hypsiglena chlorophaea)
Elgaria sp., alligator lizard -- 2 -- Boidae Charina bottae, rubber boa x -- -- Charina sp., boa -- -- 1 Colubridae Colubridae genus et species unidentified -- 5 9 Coluber constrictor, racer x -- -- Contia tenuis, sharp-tailed snake x -- -- Diadophis punctatus, ring-necked snake x -- -- Diadophis/Tantilla -- 1 -- Hypsiglena torquata, night snake x -- -- Lampropeltis getula, common kingsnake x -- -- L.
A mid-Holocene fauna from Bear Den Cave, Sequoia National Park, California
Charina prebottae is very similar to the living genus Charina bottae and was probably directly ancestral to it (Holman 1979).
Early Hemingfordian (Early Miocene) Squamate Reptiles from the Quarry A Local Fauna, Logan County, Colorado. (Note)

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