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Eryx  Daudin, 1803
Taxonomic Serial No.: 209575

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s): Gongylophis Wagler, 1830
  
  Common Name(s): Old World Sand Boas [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2014   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassReptilia Laurenti, 1768 – répteis, reptiles, Reptiles  
                         OrderSquamata Oppel, 1811 – Amphisbaenians, Lizards, Snakes, amphisbènes, lézards, serpents  
                            SuborderSerpentes Linnaeus, 1758 – Snakes, cobra, serpente, serpents  
                               InfraorderAlethinophidia Nopcsa, 1923  
                                  FamilyErycidae Bonaparte, 1831  
                                     GenusEryx Daudin, 1803 – Old World Sand Boas  
    Direct Children:  
                                        Species Eryx borrii Lanza and Nistri, 2005  
                                        Species Eryx colubrinus (Linnaeus, 1758)  
                                        Species Eryx conicus (Schneider, 1801)  
                                        Species Eryx elegans (Gray, 1849)  
                                        Species Eryx jaculus (Linnaeus, 1758)  
                                        Species Eryx jayakari Boulenger, 1888  
                                        Species Eryx johnii (Russell, 1801)  
                                        Species Eryx miliaris (Pallas, 1773)  
                                        Species Eryx muelleri (Boulenger, 1892)  
                                        Species Eryx somalicus Scortecci, 1939  
                                        Species Eryx tataricus (Lichtenstein, 1823)  
                                        Species Eryx vittatus Chernov, 1959  
                                        Species Eryx whitakeri Das, 1991  
       

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  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Eryx   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Greene, H. W.  
  Publication Date: 1997   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Snakes: The evolution of mystery in nature   
  Page(s): viii + 351   
  Publisher: University of California Press   
  Publication Place: Berkeley, California, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-520-20014-4   
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  Reference for: Eryx   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré  
  Publication Date: 1999   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1   
  Page(s): xi + 511   
  Publisher: The Herpetologists' League   
  Publication Place: Washington, D.C., USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-893777-01-4, 1-893777-00-6  
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  Reference for: Eryx   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Pyron, R. Alexander, R. Graham Reynolds, and Frank T. Burbrink  
  Publication Date: 2014   
  Article/Chapter Title: A Taxonomic Revision of Boas (Serpentes: Boidae)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Zootaxa, vol. 3846, no. 2   
  Page(s): 249-260   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1175-5334   
  Notes: DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3846.2.5; available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2014/3846%282%29.html   
  Reference for: Eryx   
       

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