11 5 1775 the journal of biodiversity data 25 October 2015 Check List NOTES ON GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION Check List 11(5): 1775, 25 October 2015 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/11.5.1775 ISSN 1809-127X © 2015 Check List and Authors New record of Boa constrictor occidentalis Philippi, 1873 (Serpentes: Boidae) in San Juan province, Argentina Tomás A. Martínez*, Melina J. Rodriguez Muñoz, Ana P. Galdeano and Juan Carlos Acosta Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Departamento de Biología, Av. Ignacio de la Roza 590 (O), CPA: J5402DCS, Rivadavia, San Juan, Argentina * Corresponding author. E-mail:
[email protected] Abstract: We document the first record of Boa included in Appendix I of CITES (2014). constrictor in Valle Fértil department, San Juan province, The systematic listing of Argentine snakes (Giraudo Argentina. The specimen was collected and deposited and Scrocchi 2002) shows B. c. occidentalis occurring in in the herpetological collection of the Department of 13 provinces: Chaco, Formosa, Salta, Jujuy, Tucumán, Biology, Universidad Nacional San Juan. This record Santiago del Estero, Santa Fe, La Rioja, Catamarca, extends the known distribution for this species in San Córdoba, San Juan, San Luis and Mendoza. It is Juan province by 105 km. distributed mainly in the ecoregions of Chaco Oriental, Occidental and Serrano, and the northwest of Espinal Keywords: Boa constrictor, Argentina, San Juan (Di Fonzo de Ábalos and Bucher 1981; Reati 1996; province, Chaco Occidental, distribution Chiaraviglio et al. 1998). In San Juan province, existing data are scarce and mostly anecdotal. In this note we confirm the presence of B.