Fancy rosy axanthic boa snake 🐍

*NON-VENOMOUS SNAKES*

 

Fancy rosy axanthic boa snake 🐍

(Eryx johni) 

Fancy rosy boa

•Fancy rosy boa  seen in entire India, Sri Lanka, Africa and Asia. 

• Fancy rosy boa remains hidden in soily regions. feeds reptiles, frogs, squirrels and rats.

• Fancy rosy boa kills its food   It by constriction. 

•  Fancy rosy boa  body is cylindrical and its length is about 1 meter. Sand Boa Its head is not distinct.

Sandboa snake

• tail is non-prehensile and creates false impression of head. Hence it is called 'doumuhi' or 'double headed. 

• Fancy rosy boa body colour is brownish. Its head and body have very small scales in 40-45 rows. 

• Fancy rosy boa is ovoviviparous animal.

• The red boa snake from India is on the verge of extinction and man’s greed, yet again, is to blame.

• The Indian sand boa or Red sand boa, (scientific name Eryx johnii) is a snake species endemic to three countries: India, Pakistan and Iran. 

• This non-venomous snake, as the name suggests, primarily lives in semi-desert areas and foothills, where it burrows and lives under the sand.

 •. Fancy rosy boa Over the past few months, there have been multiple reports of snakes being seized by forest and police personnel because they were being traded illegally. 

•  Fancy rosy boa 20 snakes were seized from Mumbai, Thane, Raigad and various other parts of Maharashtra.

•. Fancy rosy boa snakes are smuggled to China, Nepal and even to western countries because of its huge demand.