Afrophidia Vidal, Delmas & Hedges, 2007

Szyndlar, Zbigniew & Georgalis, Georgios L., 2023, An illustrated atlas of the vertebral morphology of extant non-caenophidian snakes, with special emphasis on the cloacal and caudal portions of the column, Vertebrate Zoology 73, pp. 717-886 : 717

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/vz.73.e101372

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8F3D5EDA-2F18-4E5C-A53E-2F7741FF1339

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/174B5E3F-946E-B550-31AC-D89933EBE378

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scientific name

Afrophidia Vidal, Delmas & Hedges, 2007
status

 

Afrophidia Vidal, Delmas & Hedges, 2007

General information.

This is the sister group of amerophidians, comprising the rest of alethinophidians (i.e., uropeltoids, booids, pythonoids, bolyeriids, xenophidiids, and caenophidians).

Kingdom

Animalia

Order

Squamata

InfraOrder

Alethinophidia

SuperFamily

Amerophidia

Family

Aniliidae

Genus

Afrophidia