Desert Rosy Boa
Lichanura trivirgata
Reptilia
RARE
Stats
- Lifespan
- 18-30 yrs
- Size
- Small
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Activity
- Nocturnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Desert
- Range
- North America
- Movement
- Slithering
- Breeding
- Live Birth
- Defense
- Camouflage
- Status
- Rare
About
The Desert Rosy Boa is a docile, slow-moving constrictor native to the Sonoran and Mojave deserts of the American Southwest and Baja California. It earns its name from the soft rose-pink blush on its belly scales, and can go months without food in the wild by dramatically slowing its metabolism.
Life cycle
- 1.hatchlingA miniature snake emerges from the egg or from its mother (live-bearers), already venomous or strong-coiled in some species.
- 2.juvenileA juvenile sheds its skin, grows quickly, and hunts smaller prey than the adults.
- 3.adultFully grown at adult length and pattern.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Boidae
- Genus
- Lichanura
- Species
- Lichanura trivirgata