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- noun Plural form of
caenophidian .
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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.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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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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