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Acrochordidae
Taxonomy
Acrochordidae was named by Bonaparte (1840). It is extant.
It was reranked as the tribe Acrochordinae by Perrier (1928); it was reranked as the subfamily Acrochordinae by Kuhn (1966).
It was assigned to Colubroidea by Cope (1871) and Cope (1875); to Aglypha by Perrier (1928); to Colubridae by Kuhn (1966); to Acrochordoidea by Rage (1984) and Carroll (1988); to Serpentes by Frank and Ramus (1996); to Caenophidia by Vidal and Hedges (2002); and to Macrostomata by Longrich et al. (2012).
It was reranked as the tribe Acrochordinae by Perrier (1928); it was reranked as the subfamily Acrochordinae by Kuhn (1966).
It was assigned to Colubroidea by Cope (1871) and Cope (1875); to Aglypha by Perrier (1928); to Colubridae by Kuhn (1966); to Acrochordoidea by Rage (1984) and Carroll (1988); to Serpentes by Frank and Ramus (1996); to Caenophidia by Vidal and Hedges (2002); and to Macrostomata by Longrich et al. (2012).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1840 | Acrochordidae Bonaparte |
| 1871 | Achrochordidae Cope p. 238 |
| 1875 | Achrochordidae Cope p. 22 |
| 1928 | Acrochordinae Perrier p. 3103 |
| 1966 | Acrochordinae Kuhn p. 66 |
| 1984 | Acrochordidae Rage p. 38 |
| 1988 | Acrochordidae Carroll |
| 1996 | Acrochordidae Frank and Ramus |
| 2002 | Acrochordidae Vidal and Hedges p. 983 |
| 2012 | Acrochordidae Longrich et al. |
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Fm. Acrochordidae Bonaparte 1840
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G. Acrochordus Hornstedt 1787
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†Acrochordus dehmi Hoffstetter 1964
Acrochordus granulatus Schneider 1799 [Little file snake]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| E. Perrier 1928 | Bords postérieur et supérieur de l'orbite formés par le post-frontal, qui est très allongé et en exclut le frontal. Écailles petites, verruqueuses ou épineuses, non imbriquées; narines sous le museau, rapprochées l'une de l'autre. Aquatiques, vivant dans les fleuves, les estuaires et surtout la mer, où ils s'aventurent jusqu'a 3 ou 4 milles des côtes. Piscivores. Vivipares.
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Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Langhian to the top of the Late/Upper Miocene or 15.97000 to 5.33300 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 13.82 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 13.82 Ma
Collections (6 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Burdigalian - Langhian | Thailand | Acrochordus sp. (48126) | |
| Langhian - Serravallian | India (Gujarat) | Acrochordus sp. (203629) | |
| Middle Miocene | Nepal | Acrochordus dehmi (48680 48681 48696) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | India (Jammu Kashmir) | Acrochordus dehmi (48329) |