Alethinophidia Nopcsa, 1923, 1860
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General information.
The “true” ( “ἀληθινά”) “snakes” ( “ὀφίδια”), as their name in Greek readily suggests, Alethinophidia was originally established by Nopcsa (1923) to distinguish them from scolecophidians and from a, now considered, paraphyletic assemblage of various Cretaceous and Paleogene forms (Cholophidia Nopcsa, 1923). The monophyly of this group has never been challenged. Vidal et al. (2007) suggested that Alethinophidia could be divided into two new major clades, Amerophidia (comprising aniliids and tropidophiids) and Afrophidia (comprising the remaining taxa, i.e., uropeltoids, booids, pythonoids, bolyeriids, xenophidiids, and caenophidians).
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