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- proper noun A taxonomic
family within thesuperfamily Colubroidea — manyvenomous snakes .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the paper A new species of taipan (Elapidae: Oxyuranus) from central Australia, researchers P. Doughty, B. Maryan, S.C. Donnellan and M.N. Hutchinson (in Zootaxa 1422: 45-58: 2007) described Oxyuranus temporalis.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Get an eyeful of this: a new species of giant spitting cobra from eastern and north-eastern Africa (Squamata: Serpentes: Elapidae: Naja)
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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Sea snakes in the modern sense are proteroglygous (= ‘front-fanged’) caenophidians that belong to Elapidae, the widespread and successful snake clade (consisting of about 300 species) that includes cobras, coral snakes, mambas and the Australasian tiger snakes, taipans, brown snakes, whip snakes and so on.
‘A miniature plesiosaur without flippers’: surreal morphologies and surprising behaviours in sea snakes Darren Naish 2006
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Notes on the Australian sea-snake Ephalophis greyi M. Smith (Serpentes: Elapidae, Hydrophiinae) and the origin and classification of sea-snakes.
‘A miniature plesiosaur without flippers’: surreal morphologies and surprising behaviours in sea snakes Darren Naish 2006
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Notes on the Australian sea-snake Ephalophis greyi M. Smith (Serpentes: Elapidae, Hydrophiinae) and the origin and classification of sea-snakes.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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A new species of the sea snake genus Hydrophis (Serpentes: Elapidae) from the river in West Kalimantan (Indonesia, Borneo).
‘A miniature plesiosaur without flippers’: surreal morphologies and surprising behaviours in sea snakes Darren Naish 2006
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Relationships of the laticaudine sea snakes (Serpentes: Elapidae: Laticaudinae).
‘A miniature plesiosaur without flippers’: surreal morphologies and surprising behaviours in sea snakes Darren Naish 2006
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Rage (1987) noted that this record was questionable given that sea snake vertebrae ‘are not easily distinguished from those of the Colubridae and other Elapidae’ (p. 66).
‘A miniature plesiosaur without flippers’: surreal morphologies and surprising behaviours in sea snakes Darren Naish 2006
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More than 100 species of reptile have been recorded, with Gekkonidae (e.g. Diplodactylus), Agamidae (e.g. Ctenophorus), Scincidae (e.g. Ctenotus, Egernia, Lerista and Morethia), and Elapidae (e.g. Simoselaps and Suta) being particularly diverse.
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Relationships of the laticaudine sea snakes (Serpentes: Elapidae: Laticaudinae).
Sea kraits: radical intraspecific diversity, reproductive isolation, and site fidelity Darren Naish 2006
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