Synopsis of the Snakes of the Philippines A Synthesis of Data from Biodiversity Repositories, Field Studies, and the Literature Author Leviton, Alan E. Herpetology Division, Institute of Biodiversity Science & Sustainibility, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, California 94118 & Research Associate, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA. aleviton@calacademy.org Author Siler, Cameron D. Department of Biology and Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, OK 73072 - 7029, USA & Zoology Division, National Museum of the Philippines, Rizal Park, Burgos Ave., Ermita 1000, Manila, Philippines. camsiler@ou.edu Author Weinell, Jeffrey L. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 jweine2@gmail.com Author Brown, Rafe M. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 & Zoology Division, National Museum of the Philippines, Rizal Park, Burgos Ave., Ermita 1000, Manila, Philippines. rafe@ku.edu text Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 2018 Oxford, England 2018-03-29 64 14 399 568 http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11512589 journal article 299690 10.5281/zenodo.11512589 d7a23684-9222-422b-868a-6c8712a4fd05 0068-547X 11512589 Family Lamprophiidae Fitzinger, 1843 REMARKS .— The placement of the genera Oxyrhabdium and Psammodynastes in the family Lamprophiidae has been and is the subject of considerable controversy (see Lawson et al. [2005] ; Vidal et al. [2007] ; Pyron et al. [2011 , 2013 ]; Figueroa et al. [2016] ). Indeed, as Pyron et al. (2011:341) observed, “We follow Vidal et al. (2007) in tentatively recognizing Lamprophiidae as a single family, including Aparallactinae, Atractaspidinae, Lamprophiinae, Psammophiinae, and Pseudoxyrophiinae.... [however] The genera Buhoma , Oxyrhabdium , and Psammodynastes cannot be placed confidently within the existing subfamilies of Lamprophiidae .” But even more recently, Weinell and Brown (2017) provided reasonably conclusive evidence for the placement of Oxyrhabdium along with Cyclocorus and Hologerrhum within the Lamprophiidae clade but as a distinct subfamily group. We do note that whereas Myersophis with Oxyrhabdium may be congeneric, in this account we treat them as distinct genera, pending further study. Lastly, we have not fully resolved the placement of Psammodynastes , which we believe is reasonably associated with the Lamprophiidae , but how it relates to recognized subfamilies with the family is still under investigation.