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Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Xenodermoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Xenodermoidea

Familia: Xenodermidae
Genera (6): Achalinus – Fimbrios – Parafimbrios – Paraxenodermus – Stoliczkia – Xenodermus

Name

Xenodermidae Savage, 2015: 664

• Type genus: Xenodermus Reinhardt, 1836.

Synonymy

• Acrochordinae (part) Boulenger, 1893: 172.
• Nothopidae (part) Cope, 1900: 731. [Cope (1900) refers to Xenodermus and X. javanicus on pp. 731-732 respectively, but he places them in the family Nothopidae, subfamily Nothopinae, not Xenoderminae are frequently reported.]
• Nothopinae (part) Cope, 1900: 731.
• Xenodermatinae Werner, F., 1909: 206.
• Xenoderminae Smith, 1943: 123.
• Xenodermatidae Greer & Simon, 1982: 138.

References

Primary references

• Savage, J.M. 2015. What are the correct family names for the taxa that include the snake genera Xenodermus, Pareas, and Calamaria?. Herpetological Review 46(4): 664–665. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History) Volume I. Containing the families Typhlopidæ, Glauconiidæ, Boidæ, Ilysiidæ, Uropeltidæ, Xenopeltidæ, and Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part. British Museum (Natural History): London. xiv + 448 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Cope, E.D. 1900. The crocodilians, lizards, and snakes of North America. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Report of the U. S. National Museum, Year ending June 30, 1898. Part II: 153–1270. BHL Reference page. 
• Greer, A.E. & Simon, M. 1982. Fojia bumui, an unusual new genus and species of scincid lizard from New Guinea. Journal of Herpetology. 16(2): 131–139. DOI: 10.2307/1563805 Reference page. 
• Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, including the whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. Taylor and Francis: London. xii + 583 pp., 166 text figures. PDF Reference page. 
• Teynié, A., David, P., Lottier, A., Le, M.D., Vidal, N. & Nguyen, T.Q. 2015. A new genus and species of xenodermatid snake (Squamata: Caenophidia: Xenodermatidae) from northern Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Zootaxa 3926(4): 523–540. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3926.4.4. Reference page. 
• Vidal, N., Delmas, A.-S., David, P., Cruaud, C., Couloux, A. & Hedges, S.B. 2007. The phylogeny and classification of caenophidian snakes inferred from seven nuclear protein-coding genes. Comptes Rendus Biologies 330(2): 182–187. DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2006.10.001 Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Werner, F. 1909. Über neue oder seltene Reptilien des Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg. I. Schlangen. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg. 26: 205–247. BHL Reference page.