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Colubroidea is a
superfamily of
snakes in the
clade Colubroides that
includes Colubridae, with some
studies splitting Colubridae into
multiple families...
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spinules or
spines covering the
hemipenial body. Traditionally, the name "
Colubroidea" was used for this clade. This was seen problematic, however, as many...
- Slowinski, J.B.; Crother, B.I.; Burbrink, F.T. (2005). "Phylogeny of the
Colubroidea (Serpentes): New
evidence from
mitochondrial and
nuclear genes" (PDF)...
- J.D.; Lee, M.S. (2004). "Phylogeny of
Australasian venomous snakes (
Colubroidea, Elapidae, Hydrophiinae)
based on
phenotypic and
molecular evidence"...
- A.; Wiens, John J. (2011-02-01). "The
phylogeny of
advanced snakes (
Colubroidea), with
discovery of a new
subfamily and
comparison of
support methods...
- yet settled, e.g., that they
might be the
sister taxon of the rest of
Colubroidea, or that
their sister taxon is Acrochordidae, and that
these two families...
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Gongylosoma is a
genus of
snakes of the
superfamily Colubroidea.
Gongylosoma baliodeira (Boie, 1827) - Boie's
smooth snake,
striped ringneck, orange-bellied...
- type
genus of both
Colubrinae and
Colubridae and the
basis for the name
Colubroidea, and it is one of only
three snake genera named by Carl
Linnaeus still...
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comprise Acrochordidae plus more the more
derived snakes classified as
Colubroidea.
Recent molecular studies have also
found the
families Xenophidiidae...
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Scanlon J,Lee M,
Archer M, 2002, Mid-Tertiary
elapid snakes (Squamata,
Colubroidea) from Riversleigh,
northern Australia:
early steps in a continent-wide...
