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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Chordata > Vertebrates > Reptiles > Snakes > Venomous Snakes > Elapidae > Hydrophiidae
... > Eukaryota > Animals > Animal Population Groups > Animals, Poisonous > Venomous Snakes > Elapidae > Hydrophiidae
... > Eukaryota > Animals > Chordata > Vertebrates > Reptiles > Snakes > Alethinophidia > Elapidae > Hydrophiidae

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Hydrophiidae  

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  • Hydrophidae
  • Hydrophiinae
  • Sea Snake
  • Sea Snakes
  • Snake, Sea

Scope note

  • A subfamily of marine elapid snakes comprising about 50 species with flattened oar-like tails used as sculls. They are found mostly in the coastal waters of south Asia and Australia. The largest reach a length of almost 9 feet but most species are only about a third as long. They are all venomous. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, pp331-3; Moore: Poisonous Snakes of the World, 1980, p159)

History note

  • 2018; use ELAPIDAE 1994-2017

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