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Loxocemidae (Mexican burrowing snake)
Taxonomy
Loxocemidae was named by Cope (1861). It is extant.
It was reranked as the subfamily Loxoceminae by Kuhn (1966).
It was assigned to Aniliidae by Kuhn (1966); to Serpentes by Frank and Ramus (1996); to Henophidia by Vidal and Hedges (2002); and to Booidea by Smith (2013).
It was reranked as the subfamily Loxoceminae by Kuhn (1966).
It was assigned to Aniliidae by Kuhn (1966); to Serpentes by Frank and Ramus (1996); to Henophidia by Vidal and Hedges (2002); and to Booidea by Smith (2013).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1861 | Loxocemidae Cope |
| 1966 | Loxoceminae Kuhn p. 65 |
| 1996 | Loxocemidae Frank and Ramus |
| 2002 | Loxocemidae Vidal and Hedges p. 983 |
| 2013 | Loxocemidae Smith p. 167 |
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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.
Fm. Loxocemidae Cope 1861 [Mexican burrowing snake]
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G. †Ogmophis Cope 1844
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†Ogmophis arenarum Douglass 1903
†Ogmophis compactus Lambe 1908
†Ogmophis europaeus Meynarski 1982
†Ogmophis miocompactus Holman 1976
†Ogmophis oregonensis Cope 1844
†Ogmophis parvus Rogers 1976
†Ogmophis pauperrimus Vanzolini 1952
†Ogmophis pliocompactus Holman 1975
†Ogmophis voorhiesi Holman 1977
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available