Colubroidea
| Colubroidea | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Superfamily: | Colubroidea |
| Synonyms[1] | |
|
Xenophidia | |
The Colubroidea are a superfamily in the suborder Serpentes (snakes). It contains over 85% of all the extant species of snakes.[2] Their largest component is the family Colubridae, but it also includes at least six other families.[3] It has been found to be monophyletic.[2]
Families
- Atractaspididae[4] now generally downgraded to Atractaspidinae under the Lamprophiidae[3]
- Colubridae
- Dipsadidae, in some classifications placed under the Colubridae[5]
- Elapidae
- Homalopsidae
- Lamprophiidae (includes the Pseudoxyrhophiinae in most classifications)
- Natricidae, in some classifications placed under the Colubridae, in some classifications includes the Natricinae, Dipsadinae and Pseudoxenodontinae[6]
- Pareatidae
- Viperidae
- Xenodermatidae
Notes
- ↑ "Scientific name: Xenophidia". The Taxonomicon. Retrieved 2016-12-19.
- 1 2 Lawson, Robin; Slowinski, Joseph B.; Crother, Brian I.; Burbrink, Frank T. (2005). "Phylogeny of the Colubroidea (Serpentes): new evidence from mitochondrial and nuclear genes" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution. 37 (2): 581–601. PMID 16172004. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.07.016.
- 1 2 Pyron, R. Alexander; et al. (2011). "The phylogeny of advanced snakes (Colubroidea), with discovery of a new subfamily and comparison of support methods for likelihood trees" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58.2: 329–342. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2013.
- ↑ Pough, F. Harvey; et al. (2004). Herpetology (Third ed.). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson (Prentice Hall). ISBN 978-0-13-100849-6.
- ↑ Vidal, N.; et al. (2008). "Dissecting the major African snake radiation: a molecular phylogeny of the Lamprophiidae Fitzinger (Serpentes, Caenophidia)". Zootaxa (1945): 51–66.
- ↑ Dowling, Herndon G.; Jenner, Janann V. (1988). Snakes of Burma: Checklist of reported species and bibliography. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service #76. Washington, D.C.: Division of Amphibians and Reptiles, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. OCLC 23345387.
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