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Scolecophidia

Scolecophidia
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - present (but see text)
Brahminy blind snake,
Ramphotyphlops braminus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Infraorder: Scolecophidia
Cope, 1864[1]
Families

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The Scolecophidia, commonly known as blind snakes or thread snakes,[2] are an infraorder[2] of snakes.[3] They range in length from 10 to 100 centimetres (4 to 40 inches). All are fossorial (adapted for burrowing).[4] Five families and 39 genera are recognized.[5] The Scolecophidia infraorder is most likely paraphyletic (with the family Anomalepididae recovered with strong support as sister clade to the 'typical snakes').[6]

  1. ^ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
  2. ^ a b "Scolecophidia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 14 August 2007.
  3. ^ Vitt, Laurie J.; Caldwell, Janalee P. (2014). Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles (Fourth ed.). Academic Press. pp. 597–603. ISBN 978-0-12-386919-7.
  4. ^ Scolecophidia at Palaeos. Accessed 21 December 2013.
  5. ^ Uetz, Peter. "The Reptile Database". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  6. ^ Miralles, Aurélien; Marin, Julie; Markus, Damin; Herrel, Anthony; Hedges, Blair; Vidal, Nicolas (2018). "Molecular evidence for the paraphyly of Scolecophidia and its evolutionary implications". Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 31 (12): 1782–1793. doi:10.1111/jeb.13373. PMID 30193402. S2CID 52174313.

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