Belonging to or resembling the large group of snakes that includes most modern snake families and share similar skeletal and dental characteristics.
From Latin 'colubra' (snake) plus Greek '-oid' (resembling or like). This term became standard in herpetological taxonomy during the 20th century as evolutionary relationships between snakes became clearer through anatomical comparison.
Colubroid snakes make up about 80% of all living snake species, yet the definition of what makes a snake 'colubroid' keeps changing as DNA studies reveal that these snakes are actually more distantly related than we thought.
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