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Until relatively recently
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included both boas and pythons, but it is currently restricted only to boas and their closest relatives, i.e., the families
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(
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; see above Table
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). They have a rather disjunct geographic distribution, scattered across the Americas, Africa, Madagascar, Eastern Europe, Asia, and certain Pacific Islands (
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, from the Paleocene of Colombia (
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).
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