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Taxonomy
Viperidae was named by Oppel (1811). It is extant.
It was assigned to Solenoglypha by Cope (1871) and Cope (1875); to Ophidia by Zittel (1890); to Ophidia by Gadow (1898) and Perrier (1928); to Solenoglypha by Kuhn (1946); to Serpentes by Frank and Ramus (1996); to Alethinophidia by Szyndlar (1987) and Venczel and Stiuca (2008); to Squamata by Böhme (2008); to Serpentes by Cernansky et al. (2015); and to Colubroidea by Carroll (1988) and Ikeda et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Solenoglypha by Cope (1871) and Cope (1875); to Ophidia by Zittel (1890); to Ophidia by Gadow (1898) and Perrier (1928); to Solenoglypha by Kuhn (1946); to Serpentes by Frank and Ramus (1996); to Alethinophidia by Szyndlar (1987) and Venczel and Stiuca (2008); to Squamata by Böhme (2008); to Serpentes by Cernansky et al. (2015); and to Colubroidea by Carroll (1988) and Ikeda et al. (2016).
Subtaxa
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1811 | Viperidae Oppel |
| 1871 | Viperidae Cope p. 238 |
| 1875 | Viperidae Cope p. 23 |
| 1890 | Viperidae Zittel p. 631 |
| 1892 | Provipera Kinkelin p. 94 |
| 1892 | Provipera boettgeri Kinkelin p. 94 |
| 1898 | Viperidae Gadow p. 29 |
| 1928 | Viperidae Perrier p. 3109 |
| 1946 | Viperidae Kuhn p. 62 |
| 1987 | Viperidae Szyndlar p. 66 |
| 1988 | Viperidae Carroll |
| 1996 | Viperidae Frank and Ramus |
| 2008 | Viperidae Böhme p. 169 |
| 2008 | Viperidae Venczel and Stiuca p. 759 |
| 2015 | Viperidae Cernansky et al. p. 121 |
| 2016 | Viperidae Ikeda et al. p. 151 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| E. Perrier 1928 | Tête triangulaire, élargie en arrière et suivie d'un cou très marqué. Squamosal mobile, soutenant le carré, qui est allongé, et formant avec lui une tige, dirigée vers l'arrière, mais pouvant se rabattre et devenir verticale, de. façon à reporler très bas l'articulation
de la mandibule, en même temps que la lige palato-ptérygoïde est poussée en avant et fait basculer le maxillaire, contre lequel elle butte ; de là, une énorme ouverture buccale, et, en même temps, la projection en avant des crochets insérés sur les maxillaires; maxillaire très court, vertical au repos, et portant un crochet venimeux canaliculé, couché en arrière contre la voûte palatine, suivi d'un ou plusieurs crochets de remplacement, sans aucune autre dent solide; des dents pelites, en crochets, sur les ptérygoïdes et les palatins. |