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Cropan's boa

Corallus cropanii (Hoge, 1953)

Status not recordedsnakes

The cropan's boa (Corallus cropanii) is a species in the family Boidae, order Squamata. Recorded adults weigh about 2.11 kg and reach 1.51 m in length. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Brazil.

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Quick facts about the cropan's boa

Weight
2.11 kg
Length
1.51 m
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Carnivore
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forest
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Reproduction
Live birth
Active
At night (nocturnal)
Lifestyle
Arboreal
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

How big is the cropan's boa?

CROPAN'S BOA · LENGTH 1.51 MADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 1.51 m, the recorded maximum length of the cropan's boa is close to the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does the cropan's boa live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The cropan's boa is listed for 1 country.

Brazil
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. Brazil

Why a country list is not a range map

Is the cropan's boa endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the cropan's boa classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classReptilia
  4. orderSquamata
  5. familyBoidae
  6. genusCorallus
  7. SpeciesCorallus cropanii (Hoge, 1953)

Synonyms Xenoboa cropanii

Other names and names in other languages (15)
  • Atlantic forest boaEnglish
  • Cropan's tree boaEnglish
  • Cropani's boaEnglish
  • psohlavec CropaniůvCzech
  • Boa de São PauloSpanish
  • Cropan-kertiboaHungarian
  • Boa-de-CropanPortuguese
  • Удав ХогеRussian
  • Cropan ağaç boasıTurkish
  • 克氏樹蚺Chinese
  • Boa-de-CropaniPortuguese
  • Jibóia amarelaPortuguese
  • Jiboia-de-cropaniPortuguese
  • Jiboia-do-RibeiraPortuguese
  • Jiboia-DouradaPortuguese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the cropan's boa

Other species in the same genus Corallus.

Dormilona

Corallus ruschenbergerii

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the cropan's boa?

An adult cropan's boa weighs 2.11 kg and measures 1.51 m long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the cropan's boa live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the cropan's boa for 1 country: Brazil. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the cropan's boa?

The cropan's boa (Corallus cropanii) belongs to the family Boidae in the order Squamata.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Cropan's boa (Corallus cropanii). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/cropans-boa

MLA

“Cropan's boa (Corallus cropanii).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/cropans-boa.

BibTeX
@misc{cropans_boa_2026,
  title = {Cropan's boa (Corallus cropanii)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/cropans-boa},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}