Lamprophiidae Fitzinger 1843
Authors/Creators
- 1. Herpetology Division, Institute of Biodiversity Science & Sustainibility, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, California 94118 & Research Associate, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
- 2. Department of Biology and Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, OK 73072 - 7029, USA & Zoology Division, National Museum of the Philippines, Rizal Park, Burgos Ave., Ermita 1000, Manila, Philippines.
- 3. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045
- 4. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 & Zoology Division, National Museum of the Philippines, Rizal Park, Burgos Ave., Ermita 1000, Manila, Philippines.
Description
Family Lamprophiidae Fitzinger, 1843
REMARKS.— The placement of the genera Oxyrhabdium and Psammodynastes in the family Lamprophiidae has been and is the subject of considerable controversy (see Lawson et al. [2005]; Vidal et al. [2007]; Pyron et al. [2011, 2013]; Figueroa et al. [2016]). Indeed, as Pyron et al. (2011:341) observed, “We follow Vidal et al. (2007) in tentatively recognizing Lamprophiidae as a single family, including Aparallactinae, Atractaspidinae, Lamprophiinae, Psammophiinae, and Pseudoxyrophiinae.... [however] The genera Buhoma, Oxyrhabdium, and Psammodynastes cannot be placed confidently within the existing subfamilies of Lamprophiidae.” But even more recently, Weinell and Brown (2017) provided reasonably conclusive evidence for the placement of Oxyrhabdium along with Cyclocorus and Hologerrhum within the Lamprophiidae clade but as a distinct subfamily group. We do note that whereas Myersophis with Oxyrhabdium may be congeneric, in this account we treat them as distinct genera, pending further study. Lastly, we have not fully resolved the placement of Psammodynastes, which we believe is reasonably associated with the Lamprophiidae, but how it relates to recognized subfamilies with the family is still under investigation.
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.11512589 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF8AF3248475FFC6FFA7FFACFFC3FFBA (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03B38B5C8447FFF4FE27FF76FE1CFD53 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/235037692 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/299690/taxon/03B38B5C8447FFF4FE27FF76FE1CFD53.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Fitzinger
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Lamprophiidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lamprophiidae Fitzinger, 1843 sec. Leviton, Siler, Weinell & Brown, 2018
References
- FITZINGER, LEOPOLDO JOSEPH FRANZ JOHANN. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Braunmuller et Seidel, Vindobonae (Wien [Vienna]), Austria. 106 + iv + (3) pp.
- LAWSON, ROBIN, JOSEPH B. SLOWINSKI, B. J. CROTHER, AND FRANK T. BURBRINK. 2005. Phylogeny of the Colubroidea (Serpenters): new evidence from mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37: 581 - 601.
- VIDAL, NICOLAS, ANNE-SOPHIE DELMAS, PATRICK DAVID, CORINNE CRUAUD, ARNAUD COULOUX, AND S. BLAIR HEDGES. 2007. The phylogeny and classification of caenophidian snakes inferred from seven nuclear protein-coding genes. C. R. Biologies 330: 182 - 187, 2 figs.
- PYRON, R. ALEXANDER, FRANK T. BURBRINK, GUARINO R. COLLI, ADRIAN NIETO MONTES DE OCA, LAURIE J. VITT, CAITLIN A. KUCZYNSKI, AND JOHN J. WIENS. 2011. The phylogeny of advanced snakes (Colubroidea), with discovery of a new subfamily and comparison of support methods for likelihood trees. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58: 329 - 342, 3 figs.
- PYRON, R. ALEXANDER, FRANK T. BURBRINK, AND JOHN J. WIENS. 2013. A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13 (93): 26 - 53.
- FIGUEROA, ALEX, ALEXANDER D. MCKELVY, L. LEE GRISMER, CHARLES D. BELL, AND SIMON P. LAILVAUX. 2016. A species-level phylogeny of extant snakes with description of a new colubrid subfamily. PLOS ONE, DOI: 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0161070 September 7, pp. 1 - 31, 10 figs.