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Serpentes (snake)
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Taxonomy
Serpentes was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Lee and Caldwell (2000).
It was synonymized subjectively with Ophidia by Romer (1966); it was reranked as the unranked clade Serpentes by Lee and Caldwell (2000), Augé and Rage (2006) and Wilson et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Reptilia by Estes and Berberian (1970) and Thurmond and Jones (1981); to Scleroglossa by Estes et al. (1988); to Ophidia by Lee and Caldwell (2000); to Ophidia by Lee and Scanlon (2002); to Reptilia by Augé and Rage (2006); and to Squamata by Benton (1985), Carroll (1988), Holman et al. (1991), Venczel and Stiuca (2008) and Wilson et al. (2010).
It was synonymized subjectively with Ophidia by Romer (1966); it was reranked as the unranked clade Serpentes by Lee and Caldwell (2000), Augé and Rage (2006) and Wilson et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Reptilia by Estes and Berberian (1970) and Thurmond and Jones (1981); to Scleroglossa by Estes et al. (1988); to Ophidia by Lee and Caldwell (2000); to Ophidia by Lee and Scanlon (2002); to Reptilia by Augé and Rage (2006); and to Squamata by Benton (1985), Carroll (1988), Holman et al. (1991), Venczel and Stiuca (2008) and Wilson et al. (2010).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1758 | Serpentes Linnaeus |
| 1970 | Serpentes Estes and Berberian p. 6 |
| 1981 | Serpentes Thurmond and Jones p. 162 |
| 1985 | Serpentes Benton p. 157 |
| 1988 | Serpentes Carroll |
| 1988 | Serpentes Estes et al. |
| 1991 | Serpentes Holman et al. p. 1 |
| 2000 | Serpentes Lee and Caldwell |
| 2002 | Serpentes Lee and Scanlon |
| 2006 | Serpentes Augé and Rage p. 244 |
| 2008 | Serpentes Venczel and Stiuca p. 755 |
| 2010 | Serpentes Wilson et al. p. 1 |
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