Species: dwarf boa

Tropidophiidae is a family of nonvenomous amerophidian snakes with the common names of dwarf boas and thunder snakes and collateral adjective of tropidophiid.

Species
  • Trachyboa (Wilhelm K.H. Peters, 1860)
    • northern eyelash boa — Trachyboa boulengeri (Mario Giacinto Peracca, 1910)
    • Ecuadorian eyelash boa — Trachyboa gularis (Wilhelm K.H. Peters, 1860)
  • Tropidophis (Gabriel Bibron, 1843)
    • Battersby's dwarf boa — Tropidophis battersbyi (Raymond Ferdinand Laurent, 1949)
    • Navassa Island dwarf boa — Tropidophis bucculentus (Edward Drinker Cope, 1868)
    • Bahamian pygmy boa constrictor — Tropidophis canus (Edward Drinker Cope, 1868)
    • Cayman Islands dwarf boa — Tropidophis caymanensis (James Clarence Battersby, 1938)
    • Feick's dwarf boa — Tropidophis feicki (Albert Schwartz, 1957)
    • Cuban dusky dwarf boa — Tropidophis fuscus (Stephen B. Hedges & Orlando H. Garrido, 1992)
    • Caicos Islands dwarf boa — Tropidophis greenwayi (Thomas Barbour & Benjamin Shreve, 1936)
    • Haitian dwarf boa — Tropidophis haetianus (Edward Drinker Cope, 1879)
    • spotted red dwarf boa — Tropidophis maculatus (Gabriel Bibron, 1840)
    • dusky dwarf boaTropidophis melanurus (Hermann Schlegel, 1837)
    • black-bellied dwarf boa — Tropidophis nigriventris (Joseph Randle Bailey, 1937)
    • leopard dwarf boa — Tropidophis pardalis (Juan Cristóbal Gundlach, 1840)
    • Brazilian dwarf boa — Tropidophis paucisquamis (Friedrich Müller, 1901)
    • Cuban white-necked dwarf boa — Tropidophis pilsbryi (Joseph Randle Bailey, 1937)
    • yellow-banded dwarf boa — Tropidophis semicinctus (Juan Cristóbal Gundlach & Wilhelm K.H. Peters, 1864)
    • Taczanowski's dwarf boa — Tropidophis taczanowskyi (Franz Steindachner, 1880)
    • Wright's dwarf boa — Tropidophis wrighti (Olive Griffith Stull, 1928)

Despite their common name, Tropidophiid snakes are not actual boas, and are more distantly related to the Boidae family than it is to Pythonidae.

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