Boinae
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{{Taxobox
| name = Boinae
| image = Boa constrictor (2).jpg
| image_caption = Boa constrictor, ''[[Boa constrictor|Boa constrictor]]''
| regnum = [[Animalia]]
| phylum = [[Chordata]]
| subphylum = [[Vertebrata]]
| classis = [[Reptilia]]
| ordo = [[Squamata]]
| subordo = [[Serpentes]]
| familia = [[Boidae]]
| subfamilia = '''Boinae'''
| subfamilia_authority = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1825
| synonyms = * Boina - Gray, 1825
* Aproterodontes - A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844
* Boaeides - A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844
* Boinae - Boulenger, 1890<ref name="McD99">McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).</ref>
}}
:'''''Common names:''' boas.''
The '''Boinae''' are a [[Subfamily (biology)|subfamily]] of non-venomous [[Boidae|boa]]s found in [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]], [[Africa]] and [[Southeast Asia]]. Five [[Genus|genera]] comprising 28 [[species]] are currently recognized.<ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS|ID=634391|taxon=Boinae|year=2008|date=8 July}}</ref>
==Geographic range==
Found in [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]], [[Africa]], [[Madagascar]], [[Reunion Island]], [[Mauritius]], the [[Maluku Islands]] and [[New Guinea]].<ref name="McD99"/>
==Genera==
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|-
|''[[Boa (genus)|Boa]]''<font size="-1"><sup>T</sup></font>
|[[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758
|align="center"|4
|align="center"|9
|Boas
|style="width:40%"|[[Mexico]], [[Central America]], [[South America]], [[Madagascar]] and on [[Reunion Island]].
|-
|''[[Candoia]]''
|[[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1842
|align="center"|4
|align="center"|2
|Bevel-nosed boas
|from [[Samoa]] and [[Tokelau]] west through [[Melanesia]] to [[New Guinea]] and the [[Maluku Islands]].
|-
|''[[Corallus]]''
|[[François Marie Daudin|Daudin]], 1803
|align="center"|7
|align="center"|2
|Neotropical tree boas
|Central America, South America and the [[West Indies]]. In Central America they occur in [[Honduras]], eastern [[Guatemala]] through [[Nicaragua]], [[Costa Rica]] and [[Panama]]. Its range in South America includes Pacific [[Colombia]] and [[Ecuador]], as well as the [[Amazon Basin]] from Colombia, Ecuador, [[Peru]] and northern [[Bolivia]] through [[Brazil]] to [[Venezuela]], [[Isla Margarita]], [[Trinidad]], [[Tobago]], [[Guyana]], [[Suriname]] and [[French Guiana]]. In the West Indies it is found on [[St. Vincent]], the [[Grenadines]] (Bequia Island, Ile Quatre, [[Baliceaux]], [[Mustique]], [[Canouan]], Maryeau, [[Union Island]], [[Petit Martinique]] and [[Carriacou]]), [[Grenada]] and the [[Windward Islands]] ([[Lesser Antilles]]).
|-
|''[[Epicrates (genus)|Epicrates]]''
|[[Johann Georg Wagler|Wagler]], 1830
|align="center"|10
|align="center"|21
|Rainbow boas
|Lower Central America through South America as far south as [[Argentina]], as well as in the West Indies.
|-
|''[[Eunectes]]''
|Wagler, 1830
|align="center"|3
|align="center"|1
|Anacondas
|Tropical South America from Colombia and Venezuela south to Argentina.
|-
|}
''*) Not including the nominate subspecies.''<br>
<font size="-1"><sup>T</sup></font>) [[Type genus]].<ref name="McD99"/>
==Taxonomy==
Some sources also include the genera ''Acrantophis'' and ''Sanzinia'', which are synonymized here with the genus ''[[Boa (genus)|Boa]]''.
==See also==
* [[List of boine species and subspecies]]
* {{c|Boinae by common name}}
* {{c|Boinae by taxonomic synonyms}}
==References==
{{reflist}}
==Further reading==
<div class="references-small">
* Kluge AG. 1991. Boine Snake Phylogeny and Research Cycles. Misc. Pub. Museum of Zoology, Univ. of Michigan No. 178. [http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/56422/1/MP178.pdf PDF] at [http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/ University of Michigan Library]. Accessed [[8 July]] [[2008]].
</div>
==External links==
{{Commons|Boinae}}
* [http://zipcodezoo.com/Key/Boinae_Subfamily.asp Boinae] at [http://zipcodezoo.com/ ZipcodeZoo.com]. Accessed [[14 July]] [[2008]].
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