New boa species “on its way to extinction” discovered in the Bahamas

Mongabay
By Mike GaworeckiJun 20, 2016, 1:40 pm144 pts
There are now 12 known species of West Indian boas. A team from Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology discovered the silver boa (Chilabothrus argentum) in a remote corner of the Bahamian Archipelago called the Conception Island Bank. Like all members of the Boidae family, to which it belongs, the Bahamian…

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