Website authored and owned by Graham P. Oxtoby - All rights reserved (C) 2006-2008

HOME

BREEDING

HUSBANDRY

HEALTH

SPECIATION

OTHER TREE BOAS

AVAILABLE

OTHER LINKS

Website dedicated to the husbandry and breeding of the emerald tree boa (and other tree boas) of South America

Corallus caninuS

CONTACT

LITERATURE

GALLERY

Website design by Translex Publishing Ltd. (C) 2007/2008 - All rights reserved

SPECIATION IN CORALLUS CANINUS (5)

Typical Colombian locality [photo: Jario Maldonado]

Typical  Southern Brazil locality] - this is not the 'Basin' variant.

Typical Guiana locality [northern shield]; the Surinam variant which is a Northern Shield  C. caninus is a darker green and has more grey and black blotches than the Guiana variant  [lighter green, smaller and with a lot more more white]- (C) 2008: photo by courtesy of Mark van Zanten. For a picture of the Surinam variant, click here.

Typical Peruvian locality Corallus caninus [non-Basin variant] with only small blotches dorsally and white markings along its sides. This is not the Basin variant.