Check List 14(1): 183-188, doi: 10.15560/14.1.183
First record of Corallus blombergi (Rendahl & Vestergren, 1941) (Serpentes, Boidae) from Colombia
expand article infoMaría Alejandra Pinto-Erazo‡, Guido Fabian Medina-Rangel‡
‡ Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Corresponding author: María Alejandra Pinto-Erazo ( mapintoe@unal.edu.co )

Academic editor: Sebastian Lotzkat
© 2018 María Alejandra Pinto-Erazo, Guido Fabian Medina-Rangel.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation: Pinto-Erazo MA, Medina-Rangel GF (2018) First record of Corallus blombergi (Rendahl & Vestergren, 1941) (Serpentes, Boidae) from Colombia. Check List 14(1): 183-188. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.1.183
Open Access
Abstract
We report the first record in Colombia of Blomberg’s Tree Boa, Corallus blombergi (Rendahl & Vestergren, 1941), based on 2 specimens from Tumaco municipality, department of Nariño, Colombia. The present record extends this species’ documented distribution northwest by 55 km from its nearest previously known Ecuadorian occurrence and increases the number of Corallus species in Colombia to 5. In addition to summarizing its distribution, we present a brief comparison with the distribution of C. annulatus (Cope, 1876), the species most similar to C. blombergi.
Keywords
Blomberg’s Tree Boa; Pacific rainforest; department of Nariño; South America; distribution; range extension