scolecophidian

Scolecophidia is the smaller and older of the two infraorders of snakes. Members have a common name of blind snakes or thread snakes, and collateral adjectives of scolecophid and scolecophidian.

Taxonomy
    • Family: Anomalepididae (Edward Harrison Taylor, 1939)
    • Family: Gerrhopilidae (Nicolas Vidal et al., 2010)
    • Family: Leptotyphlopidae (Leonhard Hess Stejneger, 1892)
      • Subfamily: Epictinae (Stephen B. Hedges, Solny A. Adalsteinsson, & William R. Branch' 2009)
      • Subfamily: Leptotyphlopinae (Stephen B. Hedges, Solny A. Adalsteinsson, & William R. Branch' 2009)
    • Family: Typhlopidae (Blasius Merrem, 1820)
    • Family: Xenotyphlopidae (Nicolas Vidal et al., 2010)

See also

  • reptile (class: Reptiia)
    • snake (suborder: Serpentes)
      • alethinophidian (infraorder: Alethinophidia)
      • scolecophidia (infraorder: Scolecophidia)

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