Rainbow Boa Epicrates cenchria

The Rainbow Boa is native to Central and South America, with several subspecies over its range. All have an iridescent glow when seen in the right light to capture the structural colours of the scales. Males grow to some 4 feet long and females to some 5 feet (1.5metres).

They inhabit humid tropical forests and are part terrestrial, part arboreal. Shown above right is the Colombian Rainbow Boa subspecies, E. c. maurus, native to Colombia and neighbouring regions of northern South America.