Taxonavigation

Familia: Boidae
Subfamiliae (5–6): Boinae – Candoiinae – Charininae – Erycinae – ?Pythoninae – Sanziniinae

Name

Boidae Gray, 1825

References

• Noonan, B.P. & Chippindale, P.T. 2006. Dispersal and vicariance: The complex evolutionary history of boid snakes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40(2): 347–358. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.03.010 Reference page. 

• Pyron, R.A., Reynolds , R.G. & Burbrink, F.T. 2014. A taxonomic revision of boas (Serpentes: Boidae). Zootaxa 3846(2): 249–260. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3846.2.5 Reference page. 

• Reynolds, R.G., Niemiller, M.L. & Revell, L.J. 2014. Toward a Tree-of-Life for the boas and pythons: Multilocus species-level phylogeny with unprecedented taxon sampling. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 71: 201–213. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.11.011 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

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