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Preferred term

Colubridae  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Colubrid Snake
  • Colubrid Snakes
  • Snake, Colubrid

Note

  • its venom: coordinate with SNAKE VENOMS

Scope note

  • The largest family of snakes comprising five subfamilies: Colubrinae, Natricinae, Homalopsinae, Lycodontinae, and Xenodontinae. They show a great diversity of eating habits, from eating almost anything to having a specialized diet. They can be oviparous, ovoviviparous, or viviparous. The majority of North American snakes are colubrines. Among the colubrids are king snakes, water snakes, and garter snakes. Some genera are poisonous. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, pp321-29)

History note

  • 94

In other languages

  • tarhakäärmeet

    Finnish

  • Colubridae
  • tarhakäärmeiden heimo
  • Snokar

    Swedish

  • Kungssnokar
  • Natrix
  • Nerodia
  • Strumpebandssnokar
  • Vattenmockasin

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017812

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