alethinophidian

Alethinophidia is the larger and younger of the two infraorders of snakes. Members have a common name of advanced snakes, and collateral adjectives of alethinophid and alethinophidian.

Taxonomy
Afrophidia (Nicolas Vidal, Anne-Sophie Delmas, & S. Blair. Hedges; 2007)
Caenophidia (Robert Julien Hoffstetter, 1939)
  • Superfamily: Acrochordoidea (Samuel Booker McDowell Jr., 1979)
    • Family: Acrochordidae (Charles Lucien Bonaparte, 1831)
    • Family: †Nigerophiidae (Jean-Claude Rage, 1975)
    • Family: †Palaeophiidae (Richard Lydekker 1888)
      • Subfamily: †Archaeophinae (Jean-Claude Rage et al., 2003)
      • Subfamily: †Palaeophiinae (Richard Lydekker, 1888)
Colubroides (Hussam Zaher et al., 2009)
  • Superfamily: Colubroidea (Nicolaus Michael Oppel, 1811)
    • Family: Colubridae (Nicolaus Michael Oppel, 1811)
      • Subfamily: Dipsadinae (Charles Lucien Bonaparte, 1838)
      • Subfamily: Natricinae (Charles Lucien Bonaparte, 1838)
      • Subfamily: Pseudoxenodontinae (Samuel Booker McDowell Jr., 1987)
      • Subfamily: Sibynophiinae (Emmet Reid Dunn, 1928)
  • Superfamily: Elapoidea (Friedrich Boie, 1827)
    • Family: Atractaspididae (Albert C.L.G. Günther, 1858)
    • Family: Cyclocoridae (Jeffrey L. Weinell & Rafe M. Brown, 2017)
    • Family: Elapidae (Friedrich Boie, 1827)
    • Family: Lamprophiidae (Leopold J.F.J. Fitzinger, 1843)
    • Family: Micrelapidae (Sunandan Das et al., 2023)
    • Family: Prosymnidae (Christopher M.R. Kelly et al., 2009)
    • Family: Psammophiidae (Herndon Glenn Dowling Jr., 1967)
    • Family: Pseudaspididae (Herndon Glenn Dowling Jr., 1967)
    • Family: Pseudoxyrhophiidae (Herndon Glenn Dowling Jr., 1975)
  • Family: Homalopsidae (Charles Lucien Bonaparte, 1845)
  • Family: Pareiidae (Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1956)
  • Family: Viperidae (Nicolaus Michael Oppel, 1811)
    • Subfamily: Azemiopinae (Karel F. Liem, Hymen Marx, & G. Bernard Rabb; 1971)
    • Subfamily: Crotalinae (Nicolaus Michael Oppel, 1811)
    • Subfamily: Viperinae (Nicolaus Michael Oppel, 1811)
  • Family: Xenodermidae (John Edward Gray, 1849)
Henophidia (Robert Julien Hoffstetter, 1939)
  • Superfamily: Booidea (John Edward Gray, 1825)
    • Family: Boidae (John Edward Gray, 1825)
  • Superfamily: Pythonoidea (Leopold J.F.J. Fitzinger, 1826)
    • Family: Pythonidae (Leopold J.F.J. Fitzinger, 1826)
    • Family: Loxocemidae (Edward Drinker Cope, 1861)
    • Family: Xenopeltidae (Charles Lucien Bonaparte, 1845)
  • Superfamily: Uropeltoidea (Johannes Peter Müller, 1832)
    • Family: Anomochilidae (David Cundall, Van S.B. Wallach, & Douglas A. Rossman; 1993)
    • Family: Cylindrophiidae (Leopold J.F.J. Fitzinger, 1843)
    • Family: Uropeltidae (Johannes Peter Müller, 1832)
  • Family: Xenophididae (Van S.B. Wallach & Rainer Günther, 1998)
  • Superfamily: Amerophidia (Nicolas Vidal et al., 2007)
    • Family: Antiliidae (Leonhard Hess Stejneger, 1907)
    • Family: Tropidophiidae (Leo Daniel Brongersma, 1951)

See also

  • reptile (class: Reptiia)
    • snake (suborder: Serpentes)
      • alethinophidian (infraorder: Alethinophidia)
      • scolecophidia (infraorder: Scolecophidia)

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