Boaedon

Boaedon is a genus of snakes, commonly known as brown house snakes, in the family Lamprophiidae. The genus is native to Africa, and was originally described by French zoologists André Marie Constant Duméril, Gabriel Bibron, and Auguste Duméril. However, the species contained in the genus Boaedon were reclassified as belonging to the genus Lamprophis, which had been described by Austrian zoologist Leopold Fitzinger in 1843. This taxonomy remained widely accepted until November 2010 when a phylogenetic study was published by South African herpetologist Christopher M.R. Kelly et al. who resurrected the Boaedon clade. Primary literature usually lists Boaedon and related genera as belonging to the family Lamprophiidae within the superfamily Elapoidea, the superfamily which includes the venomous cobras and mambas.

==Species== There are 27 species placed within the genus Boaedon, with new and updated ones occasionally being described. Boaedon angolensis – Angolan house snake Boaedon arabicus Boaedon bedriagae Boaedon bocagei – Bocage's brown house snake Boaedon branchi – Branch's brown house snake Boaedon broadleyi Boaedon capensis A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 – Cape house snake Boaedon fradei – Frade's brown house snake Boaedon fuliginosus (Boulenger, 1893) – sooty house snake Boaedon geometricus (Schlegel, 1837) – Seychelles house snake Boaedon lineatus A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 – striped house snake Boaedon littoralis J.-F. Trape & Mediannikov, 2016 – coastal house snake Boaedon longilineatus J.-F. Trape & Mediannikov, 2016 – long-lined house snake Boaedon maculatus H. Parker, 1932 – dotted house snake Boaedon mendesi Boaedon mentalis (Günther, 1888) – Namibian house snake Boaedon montanus J.-F. Trape, Mediannikov, He. Hinkel & Ha. Hinkel, 2022 Boaedon olivaceus (A.H.A. Duméril, 1856) – olive house snake Boaedon paralineatus J.-F. Trape & Mediannikov, 2016 Boaedon perisilvestris J.-F. Trape & Mediannikov, 2016 – Central African lined house snake Boaedon radfordi Greenbaum, Portillo, K. Jackson & Kusamba, 2015 – Radford's house snake Boaedon subflavus J.-F. Trape & Mediannikov, 2016 – yellow house snake Boaedon subniger Boaedon subtaeniatus Boaedon unicolor A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 Boaedon upembae (Laurent, 1954) Boaedon variegatus (Bocage, 1867) Boaedon virgatus (Hallowell, 1854) – Hallowell's house snake