Alethinophidia
- Common names: advanced snakes.
The Alethinophidia are an infraorder of snakes that includes all snakes other than blind snakes and thread snakes. Currently, 15 families are recognized, including 9 subfamilies and 316 genera.[1]
- Family: Acrochordidae Bonaparte, 1831 -- wart snakes
- Family: Aniliidae Stejneger, 1907 -- false coral snakes
- Family: Anomochilidae Cundall, Wallach and Rossman, 1993 -- dwarf pipe snakes
- Family: Atractaspididae Günther, 1858 -- African burrowing asps, stiletto snakes
- Family: Boidae Gray, 1825 -- boas
- Family: Bolyeriidae Hoffstetter, 1946 -- Mauritius snakes
- Family: Colubridae Oppel, 1811 -- colubrids, typical snakes
- Family: Cylindrophiidae Fitzinger, 1843 -- Asian pipe snakes
- Family: Elapidae F. Boie, 1827 -- cobras, coral snakes, mambas, sea snakes
- Family: Loxocemidae Cope, 1861 -- Mexican pythons
- Family: Pythonidae Fitzinger, 1826 -- pythons
- Family: Tropidophiidae Brongersma, 1951 -- dwarf boas
- Family: Uropeltidae Müller, 1832 -- pipe snakes, shield-tailed snakes
- Family: Viperidae Oppel, 1811 -- vipers, pitvipers
- Family: Xenopeltidae Bonaparte, 1845 -- sunbeam snakes
- Family: †Nigerophiidae
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