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Alethinophidia  Nopcsa, 1923
Taxonomic Serial No.: 634390

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Infraorder  
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  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2004   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
       SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
          ClassReptilia Laurenti, 1768 – répteis, reptiles, Reptiles  
             OrderSquamata Oppel, 1811 – Amphisbaenians, Lizards, Snakes, amphisbènes, lézards, serpents  
                SuborderSerpentes Linnaeus, 1758 – Snakes, cobra, serpente, serpents  
                   InfraorderAlethinophidia Nopcsa, 1923  
    Direct Children:  
                      Family Acrochordidae Bonaparte, 1831 – Wart Snakes 
                      Family Aniliidae Stejneger, 1907 – False Coral Snakes 
                      Family Anomochilidae Cundall, Wallach and Rossman, 1993 – Dwarf Pipe Snakes 
                      Family Atractaspididae Günther, 1858 – African Burrowing Asps, Stiletto Snakes 
                      Family Boidae Gray, 1825 – Boas, Boids 
                      Family Bolyeriidae Hoffstetter, 1946 – Mauritius Snakes 
                      Family Colubridae Oppel, 1811 – Colubrids, Typical Snakes 
                      Family Cylindrophiidae Fitzinger, 1843 – Asian Pipe Snakes 
                      Family Elapidae F. Boie, 1827 – Cobras, Coral Snakes, Elapids, Kraits, Coralsnakes 
                      Family Loxocemidae Cope, 1861 – Mexican Pythons 
                      Family Pythonidae Fitzinger, 1826 – Pythons 
                      Family Tropidophiidae Brongersma, 1951 – Dwarf Boas 
                      Family Uropeltidae Müller, 1832 – Pipe Snakes, Shield-tailed Snakes 
                      Family Viperidae Oppel, 1811 – Pit Vipers, Vipers 
                      Family Xenopeltidae Bonaparte, 1845 – Sunbeam Snakes 
       

 References
       
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  Source: Snake Species of the World, vol. undetermined, manuscript (version 2004)  
  Acquired: 2004   
  Notes: Working manuscript of follow-up volumes to McDiarmid et al. (1999), "Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1"   
  Reference for: Alethinophidia   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré  
  Publication Date: 1999   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1   
  Page(s): xi + 511   
  Publisher: The Herpetologists' League   
  Publication Place: Washington, D.C., USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-893777-01-4, 1-893777-00-6  
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  Reference for: Alethinophidia   
       

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