Snake Species of the World (Volume 1)

Covers 681 species distributed among 15 families, as follows: SCOLECOPHIDIA: Leptotyphlopidae, Anomolepidae, and Typhlopidae; ALETHINOPHIDIA: Anomochilidae, Uropeltidae, Cylindrophiidae, Aniliidae; MACROSTOMATA: Xenopeltidae, Loxocemidae, Pythonidae, Boidae (Boinae, Erycinae), Bolyeriidae, Tropidophiidae; and CAENOPHIDIA: Acrochoridae and Colubroidea Viperidae (Azemiopinae, Causinae, Crotalinae, Viperinae). The 266 generic names are organized into 80 generic accounts, and the 4,288 species names into 681 species accounts. These totals are distributed among 21 recognized family groups for the 111 published names.