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| name = Pythonoidea<br />
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* [[Pythonidae]]<br />
* [[Loxocemus|Loxocemidae]]<br />
* [[Xenopeltis|Xenopeltidae]]<br />
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The '''Pythonoidea''', also known as '''pythonoid snakes''', are a superfamily of [[snake]]s that contains pythons (family [[Pythonidae]]) and other closely related python-like snakes (but not boas, which are in a separate superfamily called [[Booidea]]). As of 2022, Pythonoidea contains 39 species, including the eponymous genus ''[[Python (genus)|Python]]'' and 10 other genera of pythons (''[[Antaresia]]'', ''[[Apodora]]'', ''[[Aspidites]]'', ''[[Bothrochilus]]'', ''[[Leiopython]]'', ''[[Liasis]]'', ''[[Malayopython]]'', ''[[Morelia (snake)|Morelia]]'', ''[[Oenpelli python|Nyctophilopthon]]'' and ''[[Simalia]]''), all in the family Pythonidae, as well as two lesser-known families, Loxocemidae (one species, the Mexican burrowing python, in the genus ''[[Loxocemus]]'') and Xenopeltidae (three species of sunbeam snakes in the genus ''[[Xenopeltis]]'').<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Reynolds|first1=RG|last2=Niemiller|first2=ML|last3=Revell|first3=LJ|title=Toward a Tree-of-Life for the boas and pythons: multilocus species-level phylogeny with unprecedented taxon sampling|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|date=2014|volume=71|pages=201–213|url=http://www.rgrahamreynolds.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Reynolds_etal_2014_MPE.pdf|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2013.11.011|pmid=24315866|access-date=2018-05-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151202212953/http://www.rgrahamreynolds.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Reynolds_etal_2014_MPE.pdf|archive-date=2015-12-02|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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The taxonomy of pythons, boas, and other henophidian snakes has long been debated, and ultimately the decision whether to assign a particular clade to a particular [[Linnaean taxonomy|Linnaean rank]] (such as a [[Superfamily (zoology)|superfamily]], [[Family (biology)|family]], or [[subfamily]]) is arbitrary. The clade name Pythonoidea emphasizes the relatively close evolutionary relationship among these 43 species, which last shared a common ancestor about 62 [CI: 46-78] million years ago, in contrast to the more distant relationship between pythonoids and their next closest relatives, [[Uropeltoidea|uropeltoids]] (the most recent common ancestor between pythonoids and uropeltoids lived ~73 [CI:59-87] million years ago).<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hedges|first1=SB|last2=Marin|first2=J|last3=Suleski|first3=M|last4=Paymer|first4=M|last5=Kumar|first5=S|title=Tree of Life Reveals Clock-Like Speciation and Diversification|journal=Mol Biol Evol|date=2015|volume=32|issue=4|pages=835–845|url=http://www.timetree.org/|doi=10.1093/molbev/msv037|pmid=25739733|pmc=4379413}}</ref><br />
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