Round Island boa

The Round Island boa (Casarea dussumieri ), also known as the Round Island keel-scaled boa and the Round Island ground boa, is a species of nonvenomous snake in the Bolyeriidae family, in the monotypic genus Casarea. It is endemic to Round Island, Mauritius. No subspecies are currently recognized.

Etymology

The specific name, dussumieri, is in honor of Jean-Jacques Dussumier, a French merchant, ship owner, and collector of zoological specimens.

Description

Adults of Casarea dussumieri are slender and reach a maximum total length (including tail) of 150 cm (5 ft). The males have slimmer, more pointed heads and have shorter bodies than the females. The body is covered in small keeled scales that give the species one of its common names. The genus is unique among extant vertebrates as it has a split jaw (intramaxilliary joint that separates anteria and posteria bones), an adaptation that may be advantageous in catching its main prey of geckos and skinks.

The colour pattern is dark brown dorsally, the belly being lighter with dark spots. Over a 24-hour period the boa has a shift in colour, changing from "dark" during its relatively inactive day time period to "light" in the early evening through to dawn when it is most active. This effect is created through polychromatic skin cells.

Round Island

Round Island or île Ronde may refer to:

Australia

Canada

China

France

Hong Kong

Mauritius

Seychelles

United Kingdom

Île Ronde, Mauritius

Round Island is an uninhabited islet 22.5 kilometres north of Mauritius. It has an area of 1.69 square kilometres and a maximum elevation of 280 metres. The island has been a nature reserve since 1957 and is administered jointly by the National Parks and Conservation Service and the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation.

Rare reptiles that are endemic to Round Island include the Round Island skink, Round Island day gecko, Round Island Boa, and the extinct Round Island Burrowing Boa.

Rare plants endemic to the island include the bottle palm.

The inconclusive Battle of Île Ronde was fought off the island by British and French naval squadrons on 22 October 1794.

Coordinates: 19°51′00″S 57°47′00″E / 19.850037°S 57.783333°E / -19.850037; 57.783333

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Round Island (Aleutian Islands)

Round Island (Imlichin in Aleut) is a 0.1-mile-wide (160 m) island in the Krenitzin Islands, a subgroup of the Fox Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located 0.5 miles (800 m) south of Ugamak Island at 54°11′58″N 164°46′33″W / 54.19944°N 164.77583°W / 54.19944; -164.77583Coordinates: 54°11′58″N 164°46′33″W / 54.19944°N 164.77583°W / 54.19944; -164.77583.

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Boa (Croatian band)

Boa is a Croatian music group, which was especially prominent during the 1980s around the former SFR Yugoslavia.

History

The band's early history started in Zagreb, then SR Croatia in 1974, when its founding members Mladen Puljiz and Slavko Remenarić, switched their interest from classical music to rock music, inspired by art rock acts such as Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, David Bowie, Roxy Music and Peter Gabriel.

The group started its concert activity in 1979 with a line-up consisted of: Mladen Puljiz (keyboards, vocals), Slavko Remenarić (guitar), Igor Šoštarić (drums) and Damir Košpić (bass guitar). The band moved towards the then actual New Romantic sound and fashion and after the release of their debut album for Suzy in 1982, they were voted by the readers of the prominent Yugoslav musical magazine Džuboks as the best upcoming act of the year.

Their next album Ritam strasti (Rhythm of passion) followed by around a hundred concerts around former Yugoslavia brought them even higher popularity. Despite the fact that their next album Govor tijela (Body language) included some successful hits, the band fell into creative crisis and thus the group halted its activities until 1989 when the group got a new rhythm section consisted of the drummer Paolo Sfeci (former member of Aerodrom and Parni valjak) and the bass player Zvonimir Bučević (prominent session musician).

Boa (web server)

Boa is an open-source, small-footprint web server that is suitable for embedded applications. Originally written by Paul Phillips, it is now maintained by Larry Doolittle and Jon Nelson.

Slashdot and Fotolog use Boa to serve images.

As of January 2006, Boa has the following limitations

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Boa (Russian band)

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Boa (Russian: Боа) is a Russian band founded in 1988 by Igor Knyazev and his cousin Sergei Serin. Boa’s musical style, a blend of Jazz, Easy Listening and Latino, has been influenced by elements of Ethno-fusion and World beat. It explains the choice of the name Boa: a short name, with the same meaning in many languages, quite exotic in Russia and advocating something tropical.

Boa’s performance credo is to combine bright, distinct melodies and unusual harmonies with ironic and smart lyrics. The current nucleus of the group is Igor Knyazev (main and background vocals, music, and lyrics) and Igor Shatsky (music, lyrics, arrangement, guitar, piano, percussion). In addition, from time to time Boa hires session musicians to diversify its repertoire.

All of Boa recordings are done by Shatsky and Knyazev, who are professional sound producers, at one of the best sound recording studio in Central Russia, The Black Box Studio in Voronezh.