RUBBER BOA FACTS
Description
The Rubber Boa is a small constrictor with a stout body. The skin is smooth, shiny and wrinkled with a rubbery look and feel. Color varies from light brown, dark brown, pink, tan, or olive.
Rubber Boa (Charina bottae)
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The Rubber Boa is from the order Squamata. Species from this order are amphisbaenians, lizards or snakes.
Rubber Boa Stats
Scientific Name: Charina bottae
Family: Erycinidae
Adult Size: 20 to 28 inches ...
Rubber boas are marvelously odd snakes. First off, they are boas, yet they range into cold habitat way up into Canada, and way up above 10,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada mountains, which is odd in itself.
Pacific Rubber Boa (Charina bottae bottae)
Rocky Mountain Rubber Boa (Charina bottae utahensis)
Southern Rubber Boa (Charina bottae umbratica) ...
Rubber boa, found throughout the southwestern U.S. The rubber boa, whose shiny brown skin actually resembles rubber, is a burrowing animal. With its blunt head and tail, it is sometimes called a two-headed snake.
The rubber boa's common name is derived from its smooth scales and wrinkled skin, which give it a plasticine appearance. When alarmed, this snake buries its head in its coiled body and exposes its tail.
The rubber boa is found in the North West United States ; the rosy boa, in the southwest .
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The rubber boa is found in damp wooded areas, large grassy areas, and moist sandy areas along rocky streams, being particularly fond of rotting stumps and logs. Although seldom encountered, this snake can be common in appropriate habitat.
voles include trout (Salmo spp.), Pacific giant salamander (Dicampton ensatus), garter snake (Thamnophis spp.), yellow-bellied racer (Coluber constrictor), gopher snake (Pituophis melanoleucas), rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis), and rubber boa (Charina ...
They are related to the rosy and rubber boas of North America, and together they make up the group called the erycine boas.
In addition to rattlesnakes, I caught many rubber boas Charina bottae. These are very strange, unique creatures that I enjoyed immensly. I did get to meet some interesting people while there including Ernie Wagner and Louis Porras.
- When some boa species want to mate, several males coil around a female in a ball and wrestle with one another for up to two weeks before one wins-or the female makes a choice.
- The rosy boa Lichanura trivirgata and the rubber boa ...
Many other snakes display similar "burrowing" habits, kings, milks, rainbow boas, sand/rosy/rubber boas, just to name a few.
Where as I have never seen a boa constrictor, carpet python or ball python exhibit any of this behaviour.
The rubber boa (Charina bottae) is found in moist regions of the far W United States and extreme SW Canada. It is a burrower, about 18 in. (46 cm) long, with a narrow, blunt head, broad, blunt tail, and silver-green skin.
 See also: Snake, Boa, Reptile, Burro, Python
  
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