Olive House Snake

Boaedon is a genus of African Lamprophiids consisting of the "Brown" House Snakes. The genus was originally described by Duméril but the species contained were reclassified as Lamprophis by Fitzinger in 1843, this taxonomy remained the accepted until November 2010 when a phylogenetic study was published by Kelly, C.M.R et al. placing them once again in the Boaedon clade. Although commonly regarded as belonging to the Colubridae, primary literature usually lists them, and related species, as belonging to the family Lamprophiidae within the superfamily which includes the venomous cobras and mambas, Elapoidea.