Eryx borrii

Eryx borrii
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Boidae
Genus:	Eryx
Species:	E. borrii
Binomial name
Eryx borrii Lanza & Nistri, 2005

Eryx borrii is a species of snake in the family Boidae. The species is endemic to Somalia.[2]

Etymology

The specific name, borrii, is in honor of Italian zoologist Marco Borri.[3]

Geographic range

E. borrii is found in northern Somalia.[1]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of E. borrii is shrubland, at altitudes around 400 m (1,300 ft).[1]

Description

E. borrii is similar in morphology to E. somalicus. However, E. borri is more slender and has a higher number of ventral scales (193 as opposed to 163 in E. somalicus).[2]

Behavior

E. borrii is terrestrial, semifossorial, crepuscular and nocturnal.[1]

Reproduction

E. borrii is ovoviviparous.[1][2]

References

1. Spawls, S. (2021). "Eryx borrii ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T13264776A13264778. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
2. Eryx borrii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 16 December 2014.
3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Eryx borrii, p. 32).

Further reading

• Lanza B, Nistri A (2005). "Somali Boidae (genus Eryx Daudin 1803) and Pythonidae (genus Python Daudin 1803) (Reptilia Serpentes)". Tropical Zoology 18: 67–136. (Eryx borrii, new species, pp. 95–99, Figures 15–18).
• Reynolds RG, Henderson RW (2018). "Boas of the World (Superfamily Booidae): A Checklist with Systematic, Taxonomic, and Conservation Assessments". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 162 (1): 1–58. (Eryx borrii, p. 33).
• Spawls S, Mazuch T, Mohammad A (2023). Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. London, Oxford, New York, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury Wildlife. 640 pp. ISBN 978-3899734706.