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Taxon: Family Boidae Gray, 1825 - pythons and boas (reptile)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Squamata

Phylogeny

Possibly Paraphyletic/Ancestral (para) Ref: R.A. Pyron et al., 2013: 38. [implicit]

Subsequent entries

Candoiinae (Subfamily) Pyron, Burbrink & Wiens, 2013 Ref: R.A. Pyron et al., 2013: 45.

Current position

Booidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1825 Ref: R.A. Pyron et al., 2014: table 1 (p. 251).

Alternative positions

Afrophidia ([unranked]) Vidal, Delmas & Hedges, 2007 Ref: N. Vidal et al., 2009: fig. 2.
Henophidia ([unranked]) Hoffstetter, 1939 Ref: A. Figueroa et al., 2016: fig. 1.
Henophidia (Infraorder) Hoffstetter, 1939 Ref: J. Coborn, 1994
Henophidia (Superfamily) Hoffstetter, 1939
Serpentes (Suborder) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: H.-P. Schultze et al., 1985: 46.
Serpentes ([unranked]) Ref: R.A. Pyron et al., 2013: fig. 1.

Historical positions

Henophidia ([unranked]) Hoffstetter, 1939 Ref: A. Figueroa et al., 2016: table 1 (p. 4), fig. 1.
Booidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1825 Ref: V. Wallach et al., 2014: table I.2 (p. xi).
Booidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1825 Ref: R.A. Pyron et al., 2014: 256, table 1 (p. 251).
Serpentes ([unranked]) Ref: R.A. Pyron et al., 2013: 47, fig. 1.
Afrophidia ([unranked]) Vidal, Delmas & Hedges, 2007 Ref: N. Vidal & S.B. Hedges, 2009: fig. 4.
Afrophidia ([unranked]) Vidal, Delmas & Hedges, 2007 Ref: N. Vidal et al., 2009: fig. 2.
Serpentes (Suborder) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: 1998
Henophidia (Superfamily) Hoffstetter, 1939 Ref: P. Uetz, [1995-]1996: 30 Dec 1996.
Serpentes (Suborder) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: 1995
Booidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1825 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 618.
Serpentes (Suborder) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: H.-P. Schultze et al., 1985: 46.
Booidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1825 Ref: W.E. Duellman, 1982: 964.
Booidea (Superfamily) Gray, 1825 Ref: O. Rieppel, 1979: 148.
Serpentes (Suborder) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Henophidia (Infraorder) Hoffstetter, 1939 Ref: B. Grzimek, 1973-1975

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 5g;32s;10ss; †1g;1s
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000: 16 Oct 2016 [5g;32s]
2014 R.A. Pyron et al.: table 1 (p. 252) [5g;29s]
2013 R.A. Pyron et al.: 47 [12g]
[1995-]2000 P. Uetz 64s
1982 W.E. Duellman: 964 2sf;[18g;58s]
1979 T.I. Storer et al. ~80s
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