Colubroidea


Colubroidea is a superfamily of snakes in the clade Colubroides that include Colubridae and a few other related families. In addition to colubrids, the past Colubroidea used various other caenophidian snakes like cobras and vipers as these snakes form a clade. However these same studies also found in support of dividing the family Colubridae into several distinct, but related, families. Zaher et al. proposed to redefine Colubroidea for colubrids and related families, while naming Colubroides for the group containing vipers, cobras as well as colubroids.
Below are the families and subfamilies that are found in Colubroidea sensu stricto:
Below is the phylogeny of the group: