Boaedon: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Lamprophiidae
- Genus
- Boaedon
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Boaedon
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Boaedon
Boaedon is a genus of snakes, commonly known as brown house snakes, in the family Lamprophiidae. The genus is native to Africa, and was originally described by French zoologists André Marie Constant Duméril, Gabriel Bibron, and Auguste Duméril. However, the species contained in the genus Boaedon were reclassified as belonging to the genus Lamprophis, which had been described by Austrian zoologist Leopold Fitzinger in 1843. This taxonomy remained widely accepted until November 2010 when a phylogenetic study was published by South African herpetologist Christopher M.R. Kelly et al. who resurrected the Boaedon clade. Primary literature usually lists Boaedon and related genera as belonging to the family Lamprophiidae within the superfamily Elapoidea, the superfamily which includes the venomous cobras and mambas.
...Boaedon in languages:
- Danish
- Afro-Arabiske Hussnoge
- English
- Brown House Snakes
- Russian
- Домовые змеи
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Boaedon angolensis
- Boaedon bedriagae
- Boaedon bocagei
- Boaedon branchi
- Boaedon capensis
- Boaedon fradei
- Boaedon fuliginosus
- Boaedon geometricus
- Boaedon lineatus
- Boaedon littoralis
- Boaedon longilineatus
- Boaedon maculatus
- Boaedon mendesi
- Boaedon mentalis
- Boaedon olivaceus
- Boaedon paralineatus
- Boaedon perisilvestris
- Boaedon radfordi
- Boaedon subflavus
- Boaedon upembae
- Boaedon variegatus
- Boaedon virgatus






















































































































