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bolyeriid
📅 Updated:2024-08-04
🕒 Created:2024-08-04
🆔 ID:61932
Description
[color=species]Bolyeriidae[/color] is a small family of nonvenomous alethinophid snakes with the common names of [color=species]Mauritius snakes[/color], [color=species]Round Island boas[/color], and [color=species]splitjaw snakes[/color], and the collateral adjective of [color=species]bolyeriid[/color].
The bolyeriid family is very small, consisting of only two monotypic genii, the types genus of which has gone extinct.
The taxon was defined by French taxonomist Robert Julien Hoffstetter in 1946, almost a century after Grey distinguished the two species from the boid genii Boa and Eryx, of which bolyeriids are distantly related.
See also
- reptile (class: Reptiia)
- snake (suborder: Serpentes)
- alethinophidian (infraorder: Alethinophidia)
- afrophidian (superfamily: Afrophidia)
- boa (snake) (family: Boidae)
- Bolyeriidae
- afrophidian (superfamily: Afrophidia)
- alethinophidian (infraorder: Alethinophidia)
- snake (suborder: Serpentes)
External links
- Wikipedia — Bolyeriidae
