Full reference: S.B. McDowell. 1979. A catalogue of the snakes of New Guinea and the Solomons, with special reference to those in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Part III: Boinae and Acrochordoidea (Reptilia, Serpentes). Journal of Herpetology 13:1-92
Parent taxon: Alethinophidia according to E. A. Zvonok and P. B. Snetkov 2012
See also Carroll 1988, Greene 1997, Rage 1984 and Snetkov and Bannikov 2010
Sister taxa: Afrotortrix, Aniliidae, Anilioidea, Caenophidia, Cerberophis, Colombophis, Colubroidea, Cylindrophiidae, Henophidia, Itaboraiophis, Macrostomata, Paulacoutophis, Pseudoxyrhophiidae, Simoliopheoidea, Tuscahomaophis
Subtaxa: Nigeropheidae Nigerophiidae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Belgium (8 collections), Kazakhstan (1)
• Paleocene of Mali (1), Niger (2)
• Cretaceous of India (3), Madagascar (4), Morocco (1), Sudan (2)
Total: 22 collections including 23 occurrences