Typhlopoidea Gray, 1825, 2009

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Typhlopoidea Gray, 1825

General information.

This superfamily represents the sister group to leptotyphlopids and comprises Typhlopidae , Xenotyphlopidae , and Gerrhopilidae ( Vidal et al. 2010; Pyron and Wallach 2014; Miralles et al. 2018). They were once all lumped together in an expanded Typhlopidae , however, recent molecular but also anatomical evidence attests for the distinction in different families (e.g., Vidal et al. 2010; Kornilios et al. 2013; Pyron and Wallach 2014; Zheng and Wiens 2016; Chretien et al. 2019; Lira and Martins 2021). Nevertheless, as with all scolecophidians, vertebral morphology of typhlopoids is relatively uniform.