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- noun Plural form of
elapid .
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Examples
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Indeed the way sea snakes are related to other elapids is interesting, to say the least.
‘A miniature plesiosaur without flippers’: surreal morphologies and surprising behaviours in sea snakes Darren Naish 2006
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Indeed the way sea snakes are related to other elapids is interesting, to say the least.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Then there are the Viperidae, rattlesnakes and pit vipers and copperheads, that also have front fangs, but phylogenetically belong to a distinct lineage from the elapids.
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Though sea snakes all possess a vertically flat, paddle-like tail (a feature not seen in any other snakes), most snake experts have agreed that the term ‘sea snake’ includes two quite different groups of aquatic elapids: the laticaudids, or sea kraits, and the hydrophiids (or hydrophids or hydropheids), or true sea snakes.
‘A miniature plesiosaur without flippers’: surreal morphologies and surprising behaviours in sea snakes Darren Naish 2006
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Though sea snakes all possess a vertically flat, paddle-like tail (a feature not seen in any other snakes), most snake experts have agreed that the term ‘sea snake’ includes two quite different groups of aquatic elapids: the laticaudids, or sea kraits, and the hydrophiids (or hydrophids or hydropheids), or true sea snakes.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Delfino et al. (2003) suggested that the loss of chelydrids (and other taxa, including cryptobranchid salamanders, varanids and elapids) from Pliocene Europe might have been triggered by the climatic cooling that kicked in at this time.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The Laticauda species sea kraits are genetically intermediate between Asian and Australian elapids while the true sea snakes are deeply rooted within the live-bearing lineage of Australian elapids.
In the, "it's so sad, it's funny" category today... - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Yep, the sea snakes are simply very derived elapids.
In the, "it's so sad, it's funny" category today... - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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The reason it was overlooked so long was based upon the fundamental assumption that only the three lineages with advanced venom delivery architecture atractaspidids, elapids and viperids had venom, that fangs were required.
In the, "it's so sad, it's funny" category today... - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Most deaths are attributed to elapids cobras, kraits, mambas, corals, vipers and sea snakes.
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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