Welcome to the Sand Boa Page, a page dedicated to providing information about Sand Boas and other Erycine snakes. This page is intended for the casual herpetologist who would like to know a little more about Sand Boas and their relatives and for the herpetoculturalist who wants tips on keeping and breeding these amazing little boas.

This is always a work in progress.   I am extremely grateful to David Sorensen who has provided me photographs of all the other species of Eryx!

(Click here to send me suggestions or comments).

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This site has been visited by   Sand Boa aficionados since July 13, 2000.

Recent changes -

In November 2003, I updated the Sandboa resources page

Table of Contents

• The Sand Boas

link to the various species accounts for the genus Eryx

• Keeping and Breeding Sand Boas

link to the care sheets for the genus Eryx

• Sand Boa Relatives

link to the various species accounts for other snakes in the subfamily Erycinae

• Choosing an Erycine Snake

a comparison of the Erycines for common traits desired in captive snakes

• Sand Boa Resources on the World Wide Web

a compilation of links to other Sand Boa related sites

• Taxonomy and Systematics within the Erycinae

link to discussions of the relationships of these snakes to each other and the names used on this page

• References

Want more information? Here is a partial list of references relating to the Erycinae

• Acknowledgements

A lot of folks helped inspire and contribute to this work in progress.