Quote Originally Posted by lefty View Post
excuse my lack of education on this.....i'm curious what makes these guys a boid? what is the difference between a boid and a non-boid?
I believe at one time taxonomists lumped the pythons in with the family Boidae as the subfamily Pythoninae,
they've been split out into their own family but a lot of people still refer to both pythons and boas as boids.

Family: Pythonidae - Fitzinger, 1826 Pythons taxa
Genus: Antaresia - Wells & Wellington, 1984
Genus: Apodora - Kluge, 1993
Genus: Aspidites - Peters, 1877
Genus: Bothrochilus - Fitzinger, 1843
Genus: Leiopython - Hubrecht, 1879
Genus: Liasis - Gray, 1842
Genus: Morelia - Gray, 1842
Genus: Python - Daudin, 1803 Pythons

Family: Boidae Gray, 1825 Boas

Subfamily: Boinae - Gray, 1825 Boas taxa
Genus: Boa - Linnaeus, 1758 Boas
Genus: Candoia - Gray, 1842 Bevel-nosed boas
Genus: Corallus - Daudin, 1803 Neotropical tree boas
Genus: Epicrates - Wagler, 1830 West Indian boas
Genus: Eunectes - Wagler, 1830 Anacondas

Subfamily: Erycinae - Bonaparte, 1831 Old World sand boas taxa
Genus: Charina - Gray, 1849 Rosy boas, rubber boas
Genus: Eryx - Daudin, 1803 Old World sand boas
Genus: Gongylophis - Wagler, 1830

Of course knowing taxonomists, this could change at any time.