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Elapidae
(redirected from Hydrophiinae)

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Elapidae /Elap·i·dae/ (e-lap´ĭ-de) a family of usually terrestrial, venomous snakes, which have cylindrical tails and front fangs that are short, stout, immovable, and grooved. It includes cobras, kraits, coral snakes, Australian copperheads, Australian blacksnakes, brown snakes, tiger snakes, death adders, and mambas.
Elapidae
a family of venomous front-fanged snakes; includes cobras, kraits, mambas, coral snakes and hamadryads. Their poison is largely neurotoxic.
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The best current research apparently shows that elapids moved from the land environment in Australia to the sea on several different occasions, so Hydrophiinae is anything but monophyletic.
The illogical basis of phylogenetic nomenclature by Keller, Roberto A.; Boyd, Richard N.; Wheeler, Quentin D. / The Botanical Review
 
 
 
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