Editing Colubridae (section)

{{Short description|Family of snakes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Late Eocene|recent|[[Late Eocene]]—present}}<ref name=":0"/>
| image = Colubridae-01.jpg
| image_caption = Colubridae species
| taxon = Colubridae
| authority = [[Nicolaus Michael Oppel|Oppel]], 1811
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}}

'''Colubridae''' ({{IPAc-en|k|ə|ˈ|l|uː|b|r|ɪ|d|iː}}, commonly known as '''colubrids''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|ɒ|lj|ʊ|b|r|ɪ|d|z}}, from {{langx|la|coluber}}, 'snake') is a [[Family (biology)|family]] of [[snake]]s. With 249 [[Genus|genera]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Colubrid |url=https://www.britannica.com/animal/colubrid |website=britannica.com |publisher=Britannica |access-date=2 December 2018 |archive-date=3 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203013937/https://www.britannica.com/animal/colubrid |url-status=live}}</ref> it is the largest snake family. The earliest fossil species of the family date back to the [[Eocene|Late Eocene]] epoch, with earlier origins suspected.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=P Dennis |url=http://archive.org/details/actazoolcrac-v461-01 |title=Nebraskophis HOLMAN from the Late Eocene of Georgia (USA), the oldest known North American colubrid snake |last2=A J |date=2003}}</ref> Colubrid snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica.<ref name=EoR>{{cite book |editor=Cogger, H.G.|editor-link=Harold Cogger |editor2=Zweifel, R.G.|editor2-link=Richard G. Zweifel |author=Bauer, Aaron M. |year=1998 |title=Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians |publisher=Academic Press |location=San Diego |pages=188–195 |isbn=978-0-12-178560-4 |author-link=:fr:Aaron Matthew Bauer}}</ref>