Alethinophidia
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Alethinophidia
| Alethinophidia | |
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| grass snake, Natrix natrix | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Infraorder: | Alethinophidia Nopcsa, 1923 |
- 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
- Subfamily: Homalopsinae Günther, 1864
- Subfamily: Natricinae Bonaparte, 1838
- Subfamily: Xenodontinae Cope, 1895
- 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
- Subfamily: Azemiopinae Liem, Marx and Rabb, 1971 -- Fae's viper
- Subfamily: Causinae Cope, 1859 -- night adders
- Subfamily: Crotalinae Oppel, 1811 -- pitvipers, rattlesnakes
- Subfamily: Viperinae Oppel, 1811 -- pitless vipers, true vipers
- Family: Xenopeltidae Bonaparte, 1845 -- sunbeam snakes
- Family: †Nigerophiidae
See also
- Scolecophidia, blind snakes, thread snakes.
- List of snakes, overview of all snake genera.
References
External links
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- Alethinophidia at Palaeos. Accessed 14 August 2007.
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