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{{Automatic Taxobox
| name = Snakes
| taxon = Serpentes
| authority = Linnaeus, 1758
}}This is an overview of the suborder Serpentes, its two infraorders (subdivisions) and the families they contain. This is the group of reptiles commonly known as snakes. Taxonomy There are two infraorders of living snakes: Alethinophidia and Scolecophidia. This separation is based primarily on morphological characteristics between family groups; however, more recently, the comparison of mitochondrial DNA has played its part. As with most taxonomic classifications, there are many different interpretations of the evolutionary relationships. This had resulted in families being moved to different infraorders, the merging or splitting of infraorders and families. For instance, many sources classify Boidae and Pythonidae as the same family, or keep others, such as Elapidae and Hydrophiidae, separate for practical reasons despite their extremely close relationship. | Alethinophidia 15 families | | Family | Common Names | Example Species | Example Photo |
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Acrochordidae
Bonaparte, 1831 | File snakes | Arafura file snake (Acrochordus arafurae) | Aniliidae
Stejneger, 1907 | Coral pipe snakes | False coral snake (Anilius scytale) | Anomochilidae
Cundall, Wallach and Rossman, 1993 | Dwarf pipe snakes | Leonard's pipe snake, (Anomochilus leonardi) | Atractaspididae
Günther, 1858 | Mole vipers | Western purple-glossed snake (Amblyodipsas unicolor) | Boidae
Gray, 1825 | Boas | Amazon tree boa (Corallus hortulanus) | Bolyeridae
Hoffstetter, 1946 | Round island boas | Round Island burrowing boa (Bolyeria multocarinata) | Colubridae
Oppel, 1811 | Colubrids | Grass snake (Natrix natrix) | Cylindrophiidae
Fitzinger, 1843 | Asian pipe snakes | Red-tailed pipe snake (Cylindrophis ruffus) | Elapidae
Boie, 1827 | Cobras, coral snakes, mambas, kraits, sea snakes, sea kraits, Australian elapids | King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) | Loxocemidae
Cope, 1861 | Mexican burrowing snakes | Mexican burrowing snake (Loxocemus bicolor) | Pythonidae
Fitzinger, 1826 | Pythons | Indian python (Python molurus) | Tropidophiidae
Brongersma, 1951 | Dwarf boas | Dusky dwarf boa (Tropidophis melanurus) | Uropeltidae
Müller, 1832 | Shield-tailed snakes, short-tailed snakes | Ocellated shield-tail (Uropeltis ocellatus) | Viperidae
Oppel, 1811 | Vipers, pitvipers, rattlesnakes | European asp (Vipera aspis) | Xenopeltidae
Bonaparte, 1845 | Sunbeam snakes | Sunbeam snake (Xenopeltis unicolor) | | Scolecophidia 3 families | | Family | Common Names | Example Species | Example Photo |
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Anomalepidae
Taylor, 1939 | Dawn blind snakes | Dawn blind snake (Liotyphlops beui) | Leptotyphlopidae
Stejneger, 1892 | Slender blind snakes | Texas blind snake (Leptotyphlops dulcis) | Typhlopidae
Merrem, 1820 | Blind snakes | Black blind snake (Typhlops reticulatus) | |
See also- List of snakes—Overview of all snake families and genera.
- List of Lacertilia families, lizards.
- List of Anuran families, frogs.
References- {{ITIS |id=174118 |taxon=Serpentes |accessdate=4 August 2007}}
- Suborder Ophidia (Serpentes) - Snakes (phylogeny) at New Reptile Database. Accessed 4 August 2007.
{{Snake families}} 1 : Lists of snakes |