#1750 · 🦎 reptiles
Northern Rubber Boa
🇳🇱 Rubberboa ·Charina bottae
📍 San Luis Obispo County, CA, USA
📍 Nevada County, CA, USA
📍 Hauser Bridge Rd, Cazadero, CA, US
📍 Red Cloud Loop Rd, Vernal, UT, US
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Max Roberts · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Zach Lim · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © spencer_riffle · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Zach Lim · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Zach Lim · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Ryanwebb · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. San Luis Obispo County, CA, USA:© happycow · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Nevada County, CA, USA:© Tony Iwane · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Hauser Bridge Rd, Cazadero, CA, US:© plantman8 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Red Cloud Loop Rd, Vernal, UT, US:© KPaulin · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The rubber boa ( Charina bottae ) is a species of snake in the family Boidae. The species is native to the Western United States and British Columbia, Canada.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 6,163 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1835 (191 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Northern Rubber Boa
- Nederlands
- Rubberboa
- scientific name
- Charina bottae
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Boidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 6,163
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1835 by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Boidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 243962, Wikidata Q302823, GBIF 5225695, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.