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Taxonomy
Ungaliophis was named by Müller (1882). It is extant. Its type is Ungaliophis continentalis.
It was assigned to Boidae by Bogert (1968); to Ungaliopheidae by Zaher (1994); to Ungaliophiidae by Wilcox et al. (2002); and to Ungaliophiinae by Smith (2013).
It was assigned to Boidae by Bogert (1968); to Ungaliopheidae by Zaher (1994); to Ungaliophiidae by Wilcox et al. (2002); and to Ungaliophiinae by Smith (2013).
Species
U. continentalis (type species), U. panamensis
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1882 | Ungaliophis Müller p. 141/142 |
| 1968 | Ungaliophis Bogert p. 23 |
| 1994 | Ungaliophis Zaher p. 476/477 |
| 2002 | Ungaliophis Wilcox et al. |
| 2013 | Ungaliophis Smith p. 165 fig. 7 |
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G. Ungaliophis Müller 1882
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Ungaliophis continentalis Müller 1882
Ungaliophis panamensis Schmidt 1933
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| C. M. Bogert 1968 | (osteological characters only) Premaxilla with an ascending process, without teeth. Maxillary teeth 12 to 15, those at anterior end of bone larger and stouter than those behind them, which are progressively shorter posteriorly; palatine, five to eight; pterygoid teeth, 11 to 15; teeth on dentary, 13 to 15. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, superf = superfamily, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Greene 1997, Hendy et al. 2009, Behler and King 1979 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available