Psammophiidae

Psammophis subtaeniatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Elapoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Elapoidea

Familia: Psammophiidae
Genera (8): Dipsina – Hemirhagerrhis – Kladirostratus – Malpolon – Mimophis – Psammophis – Psammophylax – Rhamphiophis

Name

Psammophiidae Dowling, 1967

References

Additional references

• 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. C.R. Biologies 330: 182–187. PDF
• Kelly, C.M.R.; Barker, N.P.; Villet, M.H.; Broadley, D.G. 2009. Phylogeny, biogeography and classification of the snake superfamily Elapoidea: a rapid radiation in the late Eocene. Cladistics 25: 38–63.
• Branch, W.R., Keates, C., Baptista, N. & Edwards, S. 2019. Rediscovery, taxonomic status, and phylogenetic relationships of two rare and endemic snakes (Serpentes: Psammophiinae) from the southwestern Angolan plateau. Zootaxa 4590(3): 342–366. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4590.3.2 Reference page. 
• Keates, C., Conradie, W., Greenbaum, E. & Edwards, S. 2019. A snake in the grass: Genetic structuring of the widespread African grass snake (Psammophylax Fitzinger 1843), with the description of a new genus and a new species. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 57(4): 1039–1066. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12337 Reference page.