Snake Families

Name all the taxonomic families of snakes within the squamate suborder Serpentes

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Infraorder	Family	Common name	Species
Alethinophidia	Acrochordidae	Wart/file snakes	3
	Aniliidae	False coral snake	1
	Anomochilidae	Dwarf pipe snakes	3
	Atractaspididae	Burrowing asps ...	72
	Boidae	Boas	61
	Bolyeriidae	Splitjaw snakes	1
	Colubridae	Typical snakes	2055
	Cyclocoridae	Various	8
	Cylindrophiidae	Asian pipe snakes	14
	Elapidae	Cobras, grass snakes, coral snakes ...	389
	Homalopsidae	Water snakes, mudsnakes ...	53
	Lamprophiidae	Various	89
	Loxocemidae	Mexican borrowing snake	1
	Pareidae	Snail/slug-eating snakes	20
	Prosymnidae	Shovel-snout snakes	16
	Psammophiidae	Beaked snakes, sand snakes ...	55
	Pseudaspididae	Various	4
	Pseudoxyhrophiidae	Various	89
	Pythonidae	Pythons	40
	Tropidophiidae	Dwarf boas	34
	Uropeltidae	Shield-tailed snakes	55
	Viperidae	Vipers	341
	Xenodermidae	Odd-scaled snakes	18
	Xenopeltidae	Sunbeam snakes	2
	Xenophidiidae	Spine-jawed snakes	2
Scolecophidia	Anomalepidae	Primitive blind snakes	18
	Gerrhopilidae	Indo-Malayan blind snakes	18
	Leptotyphlopidae	Slender blind snakes	139
	Typhlopidae	Typical blind snakes	266
	Xenotyphlopidae	Malagasy blind snakes	2

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