Talk:List of Serpentes families

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Who's taxonomy is this anyway? It's not ITIS and not even the EMBL. Personally, I've become a big ITIS supporter; it's a US Government project (Smithsonian Institution), the most heavily researched taxonomy project I know of and therefore the most authoritative. Plus, it's on-line and there's a checklist for snakes you can buy that goes with it (McDiarmid et al., 1999). ITIS together with this checklist are the primary taxonomic reference that I've used for the articles in the Viperinae section. --Jwinius 12:33, 11 August 2006 (UTC)