Subfamily Tropidophiinae Cope 1894 (dwarf boa)
Reptilia - Squamata - Tropidophiidae
PaleoDB taxon number: 135035
Alternative spellings: Tropidopheinae, Tropidophinae
Parent taxon: Boidae according to O. W. M. Kuhn 1966
Sister taxa: Boinae, Cadurcoboa, Candoia, Charina, Chilabothrus, Daunophis, Dawsonophis, Erycidae, Eunectes, Hechtophis, Lithophis, Messelophis, Neurodromicus, Palaeopython, Paleryx, Paraplatyspondylia, Plesiotortrix, Python, Rageophis, Rieppelophis, Totlandophis, Tropidophis, Ungaliophiinae
Ecology: scansorial carnivore