Eryx borrii is a species of snake in the family Boidae. The species is endemic to Somalia.
Etymology The specific name, borrii, is in honor of Italian zoologist Marco Borri.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Eryx borrii, p. 32).
Geographic range E. borrii is found in northern Somalia.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of E. borrii is shrubland, at altitudes around .
Description E. borrii is similar in morphology to E. somalicus. However, E. borri is more slender and has a higher number of ventral scales (193 as opposed to 163 in E. somalicus).
Behavior E. borrii is terrestrial, semi-fossorial, crepuscular and nocturnal.
Reproduction E. borrii is ovoviviparous.
References
Further reading
Lanza B, Nistri A (2005). "Somali Boidae (genus Eryx Daudin 1803) and Pythonidae (genus Python Daudin 1803) (Reptilia Serpentes)". Tropical Zoology 18: 67–136. (Eryx borrii, new species, pp. 95–99, Figures 15–18). Reynolds RG, Henderson RW (2018). "Boas of the World (Superfamily Booidae): A Checklist with Systematic, Taxonomic, and Conservation Assessments". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 162 (1): 1–58. (Eryx borrii, p. 33). Spawls S, Mazuch T, Mohammad A (2023). Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. London, Oxford, New York, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury Wildlife. 640 pp. .