Stilosoma Brown 1890 (short-tailed snake)

Reptilia - Squamata - Colubridae

Parent taxon: Colubrinae according to P. Uetz 2005

See also Behler and King 1979 and Carroll 1988

Sister taxa: Ameiseophis, Arizona, Coluber, Coluber etruriae, Coronella, Cyclophiops, Dakotaophis, Dinodon, Drymobius, Elaphe, Ficimia, Floridaophis, Lampropeltis, Liochlorophis, Macroprotodon, Masticophis, Miocoluber, Nebraskophis, Opheodrys, Oxybelis, Paracoluber, Phyllorhynchus, Pituophis, Salvadora, Telescopus, Texasophis, Zelceophis, Zilantophis

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Haile 6A (Miocene of Florida)

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