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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

Subtaxa: Falseryx, Rottophis

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Ecology: scansorial carnivore