Talk:Desert rosy boa

Are you sure, that your picture shows a rosy boa? It looks completely different from the rosy boas on http://members.aol.com/lichanura2/rosyboa.htm --Bühler 04:14, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Er, no actually. That image (that isn't in the article anymore) isn't a rosy boa after all, apparently. I have no idea what it actually is though. Any ideas? -- TomPreuss 04:37, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

That's a Red-tailed Boa, a Boa species indigenous to central & south america. Orca1 9904 23:02, 22 June 2007 (UTC)Orca1_9904

Move proposal

Would anyone be opposed to moving this article to "Charina trivirgata", in line with the rest of the articles in this series? --Jwinius (talk) 09:20, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose, for reasons stated elsewhere. Kafziel ^{Complaint Department} 07:24, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
• Support, since a consistent set of encyclopaediac articles are more likely to help than simple names. AshLin (talk) 04:31, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose I don't see that translating to Neo-Latin serves anybody. I have made a long-term suggestion at Talk:Rubber Boa; but if this is the rosy boa and nothing else is, why? Septentrionalis PMAnderson 14:15, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

BAJA? There is no place known as Baja, Mexico or Baja Mexico, just as there is no place called "south,north,east or west in the U.S.A. It would be Baja Calfornia, Mexico. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pumasgoya (talk • contribs) 20:29, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Taxonomy change

Since this article was written in 2008 (very few edits since then for whatever reason), Lichanura trivirgata has been broken into two species: Lichanura trivirgata, and Lichanura orcutti.. Californiaherps, iNaturalist, and reptile database all list the California species as L. orcutti.

I propose this be re-written to reflect this change - this will require splitting the information into two species level articles. I some of these photos are actually of L. orcutti as well. Are there any thoughts/objections? Connor Long (talk) 16:04, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

@Connorlong90, the way to do this is have an article for each extant species (fossil species can sometimes justify a separate article, sometimes not) and a separate article for the genus. If a genus is monotypic then the genus and species articles are combined as per [[WP:MONOTYPICFAUNA]]. Lichanura now exists. Please feel free to create Lichanura orcutti (or whatever the common name is) and improve the set of articles. YorkshireExpat (talk) 20:40, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

That was my plan. I wanted to be sure there were no objections to recognizing L. orcutti as its own species/document the reason why material had been moved. Connor Long (talk) 20:52, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

I have created a page for L. orcutti and have removed some references in this article referring to L. orcutti. The photo of the child with a specimen from riverside is likely L. orcutti as that is the species present in Riverside, CA. I have left that in place for now but it should likely be removed. Connor Long (talk) 23:43, 21 April 2022 (UTC)