Colubridae

Natrix natrix.

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

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 Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamiliae (8): Ahaetuliinae – Colubrinae – Calamariinae – Dipsadinae – Grayiinae – Natricinae – Pseudoxenodontinae – Sibynophiinae

Name

• Colubridae Oppel, 1811: 50, 69

Type genus: Coluber Linnaeus, 1758.

References

Primary references

• Oppel, N.M. 1811. Die Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen der Reptilien als Prodrom einer Naturgeschichte derselben. Joseph Lindauer: Munich. 86 pp. BHL

Additional references

• Zaher, H. 1999. Hemipenial morphology of the South American Xenodontine snakes, with a proposal for a monophyletic Xenodontinae and a reappraisal of colubroid hemipenes. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 240: 1–168
• Zug, G.R., Vitt, L.J. & Caldwell, J.P. 2001. Herpetology, 2nd ed. Academic Press San Diego, London.
• 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. 
• Pyron, R.A., Burbrink, F.T. & Wiens, J.J. 2013. A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13: 93. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-93 Reference page. 
• Zheng, Y. & Wiens, J.J. 2016. Combining phylogenomic and supermatrix approaches, and a time-calibrated phylogeny for squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) based on 52 genes and 4162 species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94(Part B): 537–547. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.10.009 Reference page. 
• Figueiroa, A., McKelvy, A.D., Grismer, L.L., Bell, C.D. & Lailvaux, S.P. 2016. A Species-Level Phylogeny of Extant Snakes with Description of a New Colubrid Subfamily and Genus. PLoS ONE 11(9): e0161070. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161070 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

aragonés: Cullebra
беларуская: Вужовыя
català: Colúbrid
čeština: Užovkovití
Deutsch: Nattern
emiliàn e rumagnòl: Bessa
English: Colubrid
español: Culebras
suomi: Tarhakäärmeet
français: Colubridae
עברית: זעמניים
hrvatski: Guževi
Bahasa Indonesia: Colubridae
italiano: Saettone
日本語: ナミヘビ科
ქართული: ანკარასებრნი
lietuvių: Žaltiniai
македонски: Смокови
ဘာသာ မန်: ဇြုံသ္ၚိ, ဇြံုရပ်ကၞိ
Nederlands: Gladde slangen
norsk: Snoker
polski: Połozowate
português: Colubridae
русский: Ужеобразные
svenska: Snokar
ไทย: วงศ์งูพิษเขี้ยวหลัง
українська: Вужеві
Tiếng Việt: Họ Rắn nước
中文: 新蛇下目

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