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boa_(snake)

📅 Updated:2024-08-04
🕒 Created:2020-02-13
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Description

[color=species]Boidae[/color] is a taxonomic family of nonvenomous afrophidian snakes with the common name of [color=species]boas[/color] and the collateral adjective of [color=species]boid[/color].
Species
  • Boinae (John Edward Gray, 1825)
    • Boa (Carl Linnaeus, 1758)
    • Chilabrothus (André Duméril & Gabriel Bibron, 1844)
    • Corallus (François Marie Daudin, 1803)
    • Epicrates (Johann Georg Wagler, 1830)
    • Eunectes (Johann Georg Wagler, 1830)
    • †Bavarioboa (Zbigniew Szyndlar & Hans Hermann Schleich, 1993)
    • †Titanoboa (Jason J. Head et al., 2009)
  • Calabariinae (Garth Underwood, 1976)
    • Calabara (John Edward Gray, 1858)
  • Candoiinae (R. Alexander Pyron, R. Graham Reynolds, & Frank T. Burbrink; 2014)
  • Erycinae (Charles Lucien Bonaparte, 1831)
    • Charina (John Edward Gray, 1849)
    • Eryx (François Marie Daudin, 1803)
    • Lichanura (Edward Drinker Cope, 1861)
  • Sanziniinae (Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1956)
    • Acrantophis (Georgio Jan, 1860)
    • Sanzinia (John Edward Gray, 1849)
  • Ungaliophiinae (Samuel B. McDowell Jr., 1987)
    • Exiliboa (Charled Mitchill Bogert, 1968)
    • Ungaliophis (Friedrich Müller, 1880)
Several species of snakes that have been erroneously classified as members of Boidae retain common names of boas despite their reclassification.

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