Psammophiidae

{{Short description|Family of snakes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Couleuvre montpellier.jpg

| image_caption = Malpolon monspessulanus

| taxon = Psammophiidae

| authority = Bourgeois, 1968

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = 8, see text

}}

Psammophiidae is a family of elapoid snakes. They were formerly placed as a subfamily of the Lamprophiidae, but have been more recently identified as a distinct family.{{cite journal | vauthors = Zaher H, Murphy RW, Arredondo JC, Graboski R, Machado-Filho PR, Mahlow K, Montingelli GG, Quadros AB, Orlov NL, Wilkinson M, Zhang YP, Grazziotin FG | display-authors = 6 | title = Large-scale molecular phylogeny, morphology, divergence-time estimation, and the fossil record of advanced caenophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes) | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 14 | issue = 5 | pages = e0216148 | date = 2019-05-10 | pmid = 31075128 | pmc = 6512042 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0216148 | bibcode = 2019PLoSO..1416148Z | doi-access = free }}