Alethinophidia

Alethinophidia

Taxobox
name = Alethinophidia


image_caption = Grass snake, "Natrix natrix"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
subphylum = Vertebrata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
infraordo = Alethinophidia
infraordo_authority = 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.ITIS|ID=634390|taxon=Alethinophidia|year=2007|date=14 August]

* 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
** Subfamily: Boinae - Gray, 1825 -- Boas
** Subfamily: Erycinae - Bonaparte, 1831 -- Old World sand 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

ee also

* Scolecophidia, blind snakes, thread snakes.
* List of snakes, overview of all snake genera.

References

External links

* [http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Units/Unit260/260.300.html Alethinophidia] at [http://www.palaeos.com/ Palaeos] . Accessed 14 August 2007.


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