Boiga

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Boiga
Species (37): B. andamanensis – B. angulata – B. barnesii – B. beddomei – B. bengkuluensis – B. bourreti – B. ceylonensis – B. cyanea – B. cynodon – B. dendrophila – B. dightoni – B. drapiezii – B. flaviviridis – B. forsteni – B. gocool – B. guangxiensis – B. hoeseli – B. irregularis – B. jaspidea – B. kraepelini – B. melanota – B. multifasciata – B. multomaculata – B. nigriceps – B. nuchalis – B. philippina – B. quincunciata – B. ranawanei – B. saengsomi – B. schultzei – B. siamensis – B. stoliczkae – B. tanahjampeana – B. thackerayi – B. trigonata – B. wallachi – B. westermanni

Boiga Fitzinger, 1826: 29, 60 [conserved name]

• Type species: Coluber irregularis Bechstein, 1802, by subsequent designation by Cope (1860: 264).
• Gender: feminine.
• Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 1374 (1986: 25).

• Ibiba Gray, 1825: 129 [suppressed name]
  • Type species: Coluber irregularis Bechstein, 1802, by monotypy.
  • Placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 1374 (1986: 25).

• Gray, J.E. 1825. A synopsis of the genera of reptiles and Amphibia, with a description of some new species. Annals of Philosophy 10: 193–217. BHL Reference page. 
• Fitzinger, L. 1826. Neue Classification der Reptilien nach ihren natürlichen Verwandtschaften. Nebst einer Verwandtschafts-Tafel und einem Verzeichnisse der Reptilien-Sammlung des K. K. zoologischen Museum's zu Wien. J.G. Hübner: Wien. vii + 66 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1986. Opinion 1374. Boiga Fitzinger, 1826 (Reptilia, Serpentes): conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 43(1): 25–26. BHL Reference page. 

• Ramadhan, G., Iskandar, D.T. & Subasri, D.R. 2010. New Species of Cat Snake (Serpentes: Colubridae) Morphologically Similar to Boiga cynodon from the Nusa Tenggara Islands, Indonesia. Asian Herpetological Research 1(1): 22–30. DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1245.2010.00022 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Vogel, G. & Ganesh, S.R. 2013. A new species of cat snake (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae: Boiga) from dry forests of eastern Peninsular India. Zootaxa 3637(2): 158–168. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3637.2.6 Reference page. 
• Giri, V.B., Deepak, V., Captain, A., Pawar, S. & Tillack, F. 2019. A New Species of Boiga Fitzinger, 1826 (Serpentes: Colubridae) from The Northern Western Ghats of India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 116: 1–11. DOI: 10.17087/jbnhs/2019/v116/144901 Reference page. 
• Ganesh, S.R., Achyuthan, N.S., Chandramouli, S.R. & Vogel, G. 2020. Taxonomic revision of the Boiga ceylonensis group (Serpentes: Colubridae): re-examination of type specimens, redefinition of nominate taxa and an updated key. Zootaxa 4779(3): 301–332. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.1 Reference page. 
• Ganesh, S.R., Mallik, A.K., Achyuthan, N.S., Shanker, K. & Vogel, G. 2021. A new species of Boiga (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Southern Western Ghats of India with a molecular phylogeny and expanded characterisation of related species. Zootaxa 4981(3): 449–468. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.3.2 Reference page. 
• Ganesh, S.R., Samarawickrama, V.A.M.P.K., Urs, A.J., Srikanthan, A.N. & Adhikari, O.D. 2022. Resurrection of Boiga ranawanei Samarawickrama, Samarawickrama, Wijesena et Orlov, 2005, with Expanded Descriptions and Species Distribution Modelling of Some Indian Taxa of the B. ceylonensis Group (Reptilia: Colubridae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 29(6): 341–354. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2022-29-6-341-354 Reference page. 
• Köhler, G., Charunrochana, P.T., Mogk, L., Than, N.L., Kurniawan, N., Kadafi, A.M., Das, A., Tillack, F. & O’Shea, M. 2023. A taxonomic revision of Boiga multomaculata (Boie, 1827) and B. ochracea (Theobald, 1868), with the description of a new subspecies (Squamata, Serpentes, Colubridae). Zootaxa 5270(2): 151–193. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5270.2.1 Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2026. Boiga . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 26 May 2025.

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