Editing Snake (section)

=== Families ===
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| colspan="100%" style="text-align:center; background:#bbf;"|Infraorder '''[[Alethinophidia]]''' 25 families
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! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Family<ref name="NRDB-Cs"/>
! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Taxon author<ref name="NRDB-Cs"/>
! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Genera<ref name="NRDB-Cs"/>
! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Species<ref name="NRDB-Cs"/>
! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Common name
! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Geographic range<ref name="McD99">McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. {{ISBN|1-893777-00-6}} (series). {{ISBN|1-893777-01-4}} (volume).</ref>
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|[[Acrochordidae]]
|[[Charles Lucien Bonaparte|Bonaparte]], 1831
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|3
|Wart snakes
|style="width:40%"|Western India and Sri Lanka through tropical Southeast Asia to the Philippines, south through the Indonesian/Malaysian island group to Timor, east through New Guinea to the northern coast of Australia to [[Mussau Island]], the [[Bismarck Archipelago]] and [[Guadalcanal Island]] in the Solomon Islands.
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|[[Aniliidae]]
|[[Leonhard Hess Stejneger|Stejneger]], 1907
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|1
|False coral snake
|Tropical South America.
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|[[Anomochilidae]]
|Cundall, Wallach, 1993
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|3
|Dwarf pipe snakes
|West Malaysia and on the Indonesian island of [[Sumatra]].
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|[[Atractaspididae]]
|[[Albert Günther|Günther]], 1858
| style="text-align:center;"|12
| style="text-align:center;"|72
|Burrowing asps
|Africa and the Middle East
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|[[Boidae]]
|[[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1825
| style="text-align:center;"|14
| style="text-align:center;"|61
|Boas
|Northern, Central and South America, the Caribbean, southeastern Europe and Asia Minor, Northern, Central and East Africa, Madagascar and [[Reunion Island]], the Arabian Peninsula, Central and southwestern Asia, India and Sri Lanka, the [[Maluku Islands|Moluccas]] and New Guinea through to Melanesia and Samoa.
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|[[Bolyeriidae]]
|[[Robert Hoffstetter|Hoffstetter]], 1946
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:center;"|2
|Splitjaw snakes
|[[Mauritius]].
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|[[Colubridae]]
|[[Nicolaus Michael Oppel|Oppel]], 1811
| style="text-align:center;"|258<ref name="NRDB-Cs"/>
| style="text-align:center;"|2055<ref name="NRDB-Cs"/>
|Typical snakes
|Widespread on all continents, except Antarctica.<ref name="Spa04">{{cite book |last1=Spawls |first1=S. |last2=Howell |first2=K. |last3=Drewes |first3=R. |last4=Ashe |first4=J. |date=2004 |title=A Field Guide To The Reptiles Of East Africa |location=London |publisher=A & C Black Publishers Ltd |isbn=0-7136-6817-2}}</ref>
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|[[Cyclocoridae]]
|[[Jeffrey L.Weinell|Weinell]] & [[Rafe M.Brown|Brown]], 2017
| style="text-align:center;"|5
| style="text-align:center;"|8
|Cyclocorids
|The Philippines
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|[[Cylindrophiidae]]
|[[Leopold Fitzinger|Fitzinger]], 1843
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|14
|Asian pipe snakes
|Sri Lanka east through Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Malay Archipelago to as far east as [[Aru Islands Regency|Aru Islands]] off the southwestern coast of New Guinea. Also found in southern China (Fujian, Hong Kong and on Hainan Island) and in Laos.
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|[[Elapidae]]
|[[Friedrich Boie|Boie]], 1827
| style="text-align:center;"|55
| style="text-align:center;"|389
|Elapids
|On land, worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions, except in Europe. Sea snakes occur in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific.<ref name="NRDB-E">{{NRDB family |page=elapidae.php |family=Elapidae |date=3 December |year=2008}}</ref>
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|[[Homalopsidae]]
|[[Charles Lucien Bonaparte|Bonaparte]], 1845
| style="text-align:center;"|28
| style="text-align:center;"|53
|Homalopsids
|Southeastern Asia and northern Australia.
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|[[Lamprophiidae]]
|[[Leopold Fitzinger|Fitzinger]], 1843
| style="text-align:center;"|16
| style="text-align:center;"|89
|Lamprophiids (formerly included Atracaspididae, Psammophiidae, and several other families)
|Africa (including the Seychelles)
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|[[Loxocemidae]]
|[[Edward Drinker Cope|Cope]], 1861
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|1
|Mexican burrowing snake
|Along the Pacific versant from Mexico south to Costa Rica.
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|[[Micrelapidae]]
|[[Sunandan Das|Das]] ''et al''., 2023
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|4
|Two-headed snakes
|Eastern Africa and the Levant
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|[[Pareidae]]
|Romer, 1956
| style="text-align:center;"|3
| style="text-align:center;"|20
|Snail-eating snakes
|Southeast Asia and islands on the Sunda Shelf (Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and their surrounding smaller islands).
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|[[Prosymnidae]]
|Kelly, Barker, Villet & Broadley, 2009
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|16
|Shovel-snout snakes
|Subsaharan Africa
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|[[Psammodynastidae]]
|Das ''et al''., 2024
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|2
|Mock vipers
|Tropical Asia
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|[[Psammophiidae]]
|[[Monique Bourgeois|Bourgeois]], 1968
| style="text-align:center;"|8
| style="text-align:center;"|55
|Psammophiids
|Africa (including Madagascar), Asia and southern Europe
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|[[Pseudaspididae]]
|[[Edward Drinker Cope|Cope]], 1893
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| Pseudaspidids
|Subsaharan Africa
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|[[Pseudoxyrhophiidae]]
|[[Herndon G. Dowling|Dowling]], 1975
| style="text-align:center;"|22
| style="text-align:center;"|89
| Pseudoxyrhophiids
|Mostly Madagascar and the Comoros; 5 species in subsaharan Africa, 1 in Socotra
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|[[Pythonidae]]
|[[Leopold Fitzinger|Fitzinger]], 1826
| style="text-align:center;"|8
| style="text-align:center;"|40
|Pythons
|Subsaharan Africa, India, Myanmar, southern China, Southeast Asia and from the Philippines southeast through Indonesia to New Guinea and Australia.
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|[[Tropidophiidae]]
|[[L.D. Brongersma|Brongersma]], 1951
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:center;"|34
|Dwarf boas
|West Indies; also Panama and northwestern South America, as well as in northwestern and southeastern Brazil.
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|[[Uropeltidae]]
|[[Johannes Peter Müller|Müller]], 1832
| style="text-align:center;"|8
| style="text-align:center;"|55
|Shield-tailed snakes
|Southern India and Sri Lanka.
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|[[Viperidae]]
|[[Nicolaus Michael Oppel|Oppel]], 1811
| style="text-align:center;"|35
| style="text-align:center;"|341
|Vipers
|The Americas, Africa, and Eurasia east to [[Wallace Line|Wallace's Line]].
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|[[Xenodermidae]]
|[[Edward Drinker Cope|Cope]], 1900
| style="text-align:center;"|6
| style="text-align:center;"|18
|Dragon and odd-scaled snakes
|East Asia, Southern and southeastern Asia, and islands on the Sunda Shelf (Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and their surrounding smaller islands).
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|[[Xenopeltidae]]
|[[Charles Lucien Bonaparte|Bonaparte]], 1845
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|2
|Sunbeam snakes
|Southeast Asia from the [[Andaman Islands|Andaman]] and [[Nicobar Islands]], east through Myanmar to southern China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Malay Peninsula and the East Indies to [[Sulawesi]], as well as the Philippines.
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|[[Xenophidiidae]]
|Wallach & Günther, 1998
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|2
|Spine-jawed snakes
|Borneo and peninsular Malaysia.
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| colspan="100%" style="text-align:center; background:#bbf;"|Infraorder '''[[Scolecophidia]]''' 5 families
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! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Family<ref name="NRDB-Cs"/>
! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Taxon author<ref name="NRDB-Cs"/>
! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Genera<ref name="NRDB-Cs"/>
! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Species<ref name="NRDB-Cs"/>
! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Common name
! style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Geographic range<ref name="McD99"/>
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|[[Anomalepidae]]
|[[Edward Harrison Taylor|Taylor]], 1939
| style="text-align:center;"|4
| style="text-align:center;"|18
|Primitive blind snakes
|style="width:40%"|From southern Central America to northwestern South America. Disjunct populations in northeastern and southeastern South America.
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|[[Gerrhopilidae]]
|style="width:15%"|Vidal, Wynn, Donnellan and Hedges 2010
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:center;"|18
|Indo-Malayan blindsnakes
|Southern and southeastern Asia, including Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and New Guinea.
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|[[Leptotyphlopidae]]
|[[Leonhard Hess Stejneger|Stejneger]], 1892
| style="text-align:center;"|13
| style="text-align:center;"|139
|Slender blind snakes
|Africa, western Asia from Turkey to northwestern India, on [[Socotra Island]], from the southwestern United States south through Mexico and Central to South America, though not in the high [[Andes]]. In Pacific South America they occur as far south as southern coastal Peru, and on the Atlantic side as far as Uruguay and Argentina. In the Caribbean they are found on the Bahamas, [[Hispaniola]] and the [[Lesser Antilles]].
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|[[Typhlopidae]]
|[[Blasius Merrem|Merrem]], 1820
| style="text-align:center;"|18
| style="text-align:center;"|266
|Typical blind snakes
|Most tropical and many subtropical regions around the world, particularly in Africa, Madagascar, Asia, islands in the Pacific, tropical America and in southeastern Europe.
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|[[Xenotyphlopidae]]
|Vidal, Vences, Branch and Hedges 2010
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|1
|Round-nosed blindsnake
|Northern Madagascar.
|}