Family Ungaliophiidae Zaher 1994 (dwarf boa)

Reptilia - Squamata - Ungaliophiidae

Alternative spelling: Ungaliopheidae

Full reference: H. Zaher. 1994. Les Tropidopheoidea (Serpentes ; Alethinophidia) sont-ils réellement monophylétiques? Arguments en faveur de leur polyphylétisme. [Are the Tropidopheoidea (Serpentes; Alethinophidia) really monophyletic? Arguments in favour of their polyphyletic status]. Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences. Série III, Sciences de la vie/Life sciences 317(5):471-478

Parent taxon: Booidea according to T. P. Wilcox et al. 2002

See also Longrich et al. 2012 and Zaher 1994

Sister taxa: Anomalophidae, Archaeophidae, Boavus, Boidae, Conantophis, Eoanilius, Eoconstrictor, Michauxophis, Rageryx

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Ungaliophiidae in the database

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