Henophidia

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Henophidia is a superfamily that contains boas, pythons and other "primitive" snakes. It belongs to the suborder Serpentes, the snakes.

It contains the following families:

• Family Aniliidae (coral pipe snakes and pipe snakes)
• Family Anomochilidae (dwarf pipe snakes)
• Family Boidae (boas and pythons)
• Family Bolyeriidae (Round Island boas)
• Family Cylindrophiidae (Asian pipe snakes)
• Family Loxocemidae (Mexican burrowing pythons)
• Family Tropidophiidae (dwarf boas)
• Family Uropeltidae (shield-tailed snakes and short-tail snakes)
• Family Xenopeltidae (sunbeam snakes)