Lamprophiinae

Lamprophiinae
Boaedon capensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Lamprophiidae
Subfamily:	Lamprophiinae Fitzinger, 1843
Genera
12, see text

Lamprophiinae is a subfamily of lamprophiid snakes, a large group of mostly African snakes, most of which were formerly classified as colubrids but which we now know are actually more closely related to elapids. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

Lamprophiine snakes are small to medium-sized snakes, several of which use constriction to subdue their prey. In general we know little about their ecology in the wild.

The best-known lamprophiines are probably the genera Boaedon and Lamprophis , commonly known as "house snakes". Several species are popular in the pet trade.

Chamaelycus and Dendrolycus are the most poorly known genera. ^[7]

Genera

There are currently 78 species in 15 genera placed in Lamprophiinae. ^[8]

• Alopecion Duméril, 1853 - spotted house snake
• Boaedon A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 (brown house snakes)
• Bothrolycus Günther, 1874 (Günther's black snake)
• Bothrophthalmus W. Peters, 1863 (red-black striped snakes)
• Chamaelycus Boulenger, 1919 (African banded snakes)
• Dendrolycus Laurent, 1956 (Cameroon rainforest snake)
• Gonionotophis Boulenger, 1893 (African File Snakes; including the former genus Mehelya)
• Gracililima Broadley, Tolley, Conradie, Wishart, Trape, Burger, Kusamba, Zassi-Boulou & Greenbaum, 2018 (black file snake)
• Hormonotus Hallowell, 1857 (yellow forest snake)
• Inyoka Kelly, Branch, Broadley, Barker & Villet, 2011 (Swazi rock snake)
• Lamprophis Fitzinger, 1843 (dwarf house snakes)
• Limaformosa Broadley, Tolley, Conradie, Wishart, Trape, Burger, Kusamba, Zassi-Boulou, & Greenbaum, 2018(African file snakes; including the former genus Mehelya)
• Lycodonomorphus Fitzinger, 1843 (African water snakes)
• Lycophidion Fitzinger, 1843 (African wolf snakes)
• Pseudoboodon Peracca, 1897 (Ethiopian mountain snakes)

References

1. Pyron, R. Alexander; Burbrink, Frank T.; Colli, Guarino R.; de Oca, Adrian Nieto Montes; Vitt, Laurie J.; Kuczynski, Caitlin A.; Wiens, John J. (2011). "The phylogeny of advanced snakes (Colubroidea), with discovery of a new subfamily and comparison of support methods for likelihood trees" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 58 (2): 329–342. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.11.006. PMID   21074626. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-03.
2. Pyron, R. A.; Burbrink, F.; Wiens, J. J. (2013). "A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13: 93. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-93 . PMC   3682911 . PMID   23627680.
3. Streicher, J. W.; Ruane, S. (2018). "Phylogenomics of Snakes". eLS: 1–8. doi:10.1002/9780470015902.a0027476. ISBN   9780470015902.
4. Figueroa, A.; McKelvy, A. D.; Grismer, L. L.; Bell, C. D.; Lailvaux, S. P. (2016). "A species-level phylogeny of extant snakes with description of a new colubrid subfamily and genus". PLOS ONE. 11 (9): e0161070. Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1161070F. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161070 . PMC   5014348 . PMID   27603205.
5. Zheng, Y; Wiens, JJ (2016). "Combining phylogenomic and supermatrix approaches, and a time-calibrated phylogeny for squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) based on 52 genes and 4162 species" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 94 (Pt B): 537–547. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.10.009. PMID   26475614.
6. Kelly, C. M. R.; Branch, W. R.; Broadley, D. G.; Barker, N. P.; Villet, M. H. (2011). "Molecular systematics of the African snake family Lamprophiidae Fitzinger, 1843 (Serpentes: Elapoidea), with particular focus on the genera Lamprophis Fitzinger 1843 and Mehelya Csiki 1903" . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 58 (3): 415–426. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.11.010. PMID   21095234.
7. de Witte, G. F. (1963). "The colubrid snake genera Chamaelycus Boulenger and Oophilositum Parker". Copeia. 1963 (4): 634–636. doi:10.2307/1440964. JSTOR   1440964.
8. "Lamprophiinae". Reptile Database. Retrieved 22 May 2018.