Editing Boidae (section)

==Subfamilies==
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!bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|Subfamily<ref name="ITIS"/>
!bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|Taxon author<ref name="ITIS"/>
!bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|Genera<ref name="ITIS"/>
!bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|Species<ref name="ITIS"/>
!bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|Common name
!bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|Geographic range<ref name="McD99"/>
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|[[Boinae]]
|[[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1825<ref name=Gray1825 />
|align="center"|5
|align="center"|34
|true boas
|style="width:40%"|[[Central America|Central]] and South America and the [[West Indies]]
|-
|Calabariinae{{efn|name=Calabaria}}
|[[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1858
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|1
|[[Calabar python]]
|tropical [[West Africa|West]] and [[Central Africa]]
|-
|[[Candoia|Candoiinae]]{{efn|name=Candoia}}
|Pyron, Burbink & Wiens, 2013
|align="center"|1
|align="center"|5
|bevel-nosed boas or keel-scaled boas
|from [[Sulawesi]] through the [[Maluku Islands]], [[New Guinea]] and [[Melanesia]] to [[Samoa]] and [[Tokelau]]
|-
|[[Erycinae]]
|[[Charles Lucien Bonaparte|Bonaparte]], 1831
|align="center"|3
|align="center"|18
|Old World sand boas
|Southern and Southeastern Europe, [[Asia Minor]], North, Central, West and East Africa, [[Arabia]], Central and Southwest Asia, India, [[Sri Lanka]], western Canada, the western United States, and northwestern Mexico
|-
|[[Sanziniinae]]
|Romer, 1956
|align="center"|2
|align="center"|4
|Madagascan boas or Malagasy boas
|[[Madagascar]]
|-
|[[Ungaliophiinae]]
|McDowell, 1987
|align="center|2
|align="center"|3
|neotropical dwarf boas
|Central and South America from southern Mexico to Colombia
|-
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[[Type genus]] = ''[[Boa (genus)|Boa]]'' – Gray, 1825<ref name="McD99"/>