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Terme préférentiel

Boidae  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Définition

  • A family of snakes comprising the boas, anacondas, and pythons. They occupy a variety of habitats through the tropics and subtropics and are arboreal, aquatic or fossorial (burrowing). Some are oviparous, others ovoviviparous. Contrary to popular opinion, they do not crush the bones of their victims: their coils exert enough pressure to stop a prey's breathing, thus suffocating it. There are five subfamilies: Boinae, Bolyerinae, Erycinae, Pythoninae, and Tropidophiinae. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, p315-320)

Concept générique

Synonyme(s)

  • Boinae
  • txid37579
  • txid8572
  • txid8573

Traductions

  • français

  • Boïdés
  • txid37579
  • txid8572
  • txid8573

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-H2JST4BV-N

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RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Date de création 16/02/1993, dernière modification le 02/09/2020