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Species: boa (snake)
Boidae is a taxonomic family of nonvenomous afrophidian snakes with the common name of boas and the collateral adjective of boid.
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)
- Candoia (John Edward Gray, 1842)
- 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.
See also
- reptile (class: Reptilia)
- snake (suborder: Serpentes)
- alethinophidian (infraorder: Alethinophidia)
- afrophidian (superfamily: Afrophidia)
- boa (snake) (family: Boidae)
- amerophidian (superfamily: Amerophidia)
- dwarf boa (family: Tropidophiidae)
- boa (clothing)
External links
- Wikipedia — Boidae
The following tags are aliased to this tag: boa_snake, boidae (learn more).
This tag implicates snake (learn more).
The following tags implicate this tag: bevel-nosed_boa, boinae, calabar_python, old_world_sand_boa, sanziniinae (learn more).
