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{{Short description|Subfamily of snakes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Pseudoxyrhophiidae
| image = Malagasy giant hognose snake (Leioheterodon madagascariensis) 1.jpg
| image_caption = Giant Malagasy hognose snake<br/>''[[Biology:Leioheterodon madagascariensis|Leioheterodon madagascariensis]]''
| taxon = Pseudoxyrhophiidae
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = About 22, see text
}}

The '''Pseudoxyrhophiidae''' is a family of [[Biology:Elapoidea|elapoid]] [[Biology:Lamprophiidae|snakes]], found mostly in {{wipe|Madagascar}}.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Cadle JE | chapter = Colubridae, Snakes in The Natural History of Madagascar | pages = 997–1004 | veditors = Goodman SM, Benstead JP | date = 2003 | title = The Natural History of Madagascar | location = Chicago | publisher = University of Chicago Press | isbn = 978-0226303079}}</ref> They were formerly placed as a subfamily of the [[Biology:Lamprophiidae|Lamprophiidae]], but have been more recently identified as a distinct family.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Zaher H, Murphy RW, Arredondo JC, Graboski R, Machado-Filho PR, Mahlow K, Montingelli GG, Quadros AB, Orlov NL, Wilkinson M, Zhang YP, Grazziotin FG | display-authors = 6 | title = Large-scale molecular phylogeny, morphology, divergence-time estimation, and the fossil record of advanced caenophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes) | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 14 | issue = 5 | page = e0216148 | date = 2019-05-10 | pmid = 31075128 | pmc = 6512042 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0216148 | bibcode = 2019PLoSO..1416148Z | doi-access = free }}</ref>

It contains about 22 [[Biology:Genus|genera]] in two subfamilies:<ref name="Pyron">{{cite journal | vauthors = Pyron RA, Burbrink FT, Wiens JJ | title = A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes | journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 13 | issue = 1 | page = 93 | date = April 2013 | pmid = 23627680 | pmc = 3682911 | doi = 10.1186/1471-2148-13-93 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Pseudoxyrhophiidae |url=https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/reptilia/lepidosauromorpha/pythonomorpha/elapoidea/pseudoxyrhophiidae.html |access-date=2022-07-21 |website=www.mv.helsinki.fi |language=en}}</ref>
*Amplorhininae <small>Meirte, 1992</small>
**''[[Biology:Amplorhinus|Amplorhinus]]'' {{small|A. Smith, 1847}}
**''Ditypophis'' {{small|Günther, 1881}}
**''[[Biology:Duberria|Duberria]]'' {{small|Fitzinger, 1826}}
*Pseudoxyrhophiinae <small>Dowling, 1975</small>
**''[[Biology:Alluaudina|Alluaudina]]'' {{small|Mocquard, 1894}}
**''[[Biology:Brygophis|Brygophis]]'' {{small|Domergue & Bour, 1989}}
**''[[Biology:Compsophis|Compsophis]]'' {{small|Mocquard, 1894}}
**''[[Biology:Dromicodryas|Dromicodryas]]'' {{small|Boulenger, 1893}}
**''[[Biology:Elapotinus|Elapotinus]]'' {{small|Jan, 1862}}
**''[[Biology:Heteroliodon|Heteroliodon]]'' {{small|Boettger, 1913}}
**''[[Biology:Ithycyphus|Ithycyphus]]'' {{small|Günther, 1873}}
**''[[Biology:Langaha|Langaha]]'' {{small|Bonnaterre, 1790}}
**''[[Biology:Leioheterodon|Leioheterodon]]'' {{small|Boulenger, 1893}}
**''[[Biology:Liophidium|Liophidium]]'' {{small|Boulenger, 1896}}
**''[[Biology:Liopholidophis|Liopholidophis]]'' {{small|Mocquard, 1904}}
**''[[Biology:Lycodryas|Lycodryas]]'' {{small|Günther, 1879}}
**''[[Biology:Madagascarophis|Madagascarophis]]'' {{small|Mertens, 1952}}
**''[[Biology:Micropisthodon|Micropisthodon]]'' {{small|Mocquard, 1894}}
**''[[Biology:Pararhadinaea|Pararhadinaea]]'' {{small|Boettger, 1898}}
**''[[Biology:Parastenophis|Parastenophis]]'' {{small|Domergue, 1995}}
**''[[Biology:Phisalixella|Phisalixella]]'' {{small|Domergue, 1995}}
**''[[Biology:Pseudoxyrhopus|Pseudoxyrhopus]]'' {{small|Günther, 1881}}
**''[[Biology:Thamnosophis|Thamnosophis]]'' {{small|Jan, 1863}}

== References ==
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