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* EMBL Reptile Database - [http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/~uetz/families/Elapidae.html Family Elapidae] |
* EMBL Reptile Database - [http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/~uetz/families/Elapidae.html Family Elapidae] |
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* Animal Diversity Web - [http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Elapidae.html Elapidae] |
* Animal Diversity Web - [http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Elapidae.html Elapidae] |
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* Animal Diversity Web - [http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Hydrophiidae.html Hydrophiidae] |
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Revision as of 18:17, 4 May 2006
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| Subfamily: | Hydrophiinae
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The Hydrophiinae, or hydrophiines, are a subfamily of the Elapidae that includes the sea snakes, sea kraits and Australian elapids. For coral snakes, cobras, mambas and kraits, see the subfamily Elapinae.
Genera
| Genus | Authority | Species | Subsp.* | Common name | Geographic range |
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| Acalyptophis | Boulenger, 1869 | 1 | 0 | Spiny-headed seasnake | |
| Acanthophis | Daudin, 1803 | 9 | 2 | Death adders | |
| Aipysurus | Lacépède, 1804 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Aspidomorphus | Fitzinger, 1843 | 3 | 3 | Collared adders | |
| Astrotia | Fischer, 1855 | 1 | 0 | Stoke's sea snake | |
| Austrelaps | Worrell, 1963 | 3 | 0 | Copperheads | |
| Cacophis | Günther, 1863 | 4 | 0 | Dwarf crowned snakes | |
| Demansia | Gray, 1842 | 8 | 3 | Venomous whip snakes | |
| Denisonia | Krefft, 1869 | 2 | 0 | Ornamental snakes | |
| Disteira | Worrell, 1961 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Drysdalia | Worrell, 1961 | 3 | 0 | Australian crowned snakes | |
| Echiopsis | Fitzinger, 1843 | 2 | 0 | Bardick snakes | |
| Elapognathus | Boulenger, 1896 | 2 | 0 | Little brown snakes | |
| Emydocephalus | Krefft, 1869 | 2 | 0 | Turtlehead sea snakes | |
| Enhydrina | Gray, 1849 | 2 | 0 | Beaked sea snakes | |
| Ephalophis | Smith, 1931 | 1 | 0 | Grey's sea snake | |
| Furina | Duméril, 1853 | 5 | 0 | Naped snakes | |
| Hemiaspis | Fitzinger, 1861 | 2 | 0 | Gray swamp snakes | |
| Hoplocephalus | Wagler, 1830 | 3 | 0 | Harlequin snakes | |
| Hydrelaps | Boulenger, 1896 | 1 | 0 | Port Darwin seasnake | |
| Hydrophis | Latreille in Sonnini & Latreille, 1801 | 29 | 5 | Asian sea snakes | |
| Kerilia | Gray, 1849 | 1 | 1 | Jerdon's sea snake | |
| Kolpophis | M. A. Smith, 1926 | 1 | 0 | Bighead sea snake | |
| Lapemis | Gray, 1835 | 2 | 0 | Shaw's sea snake | |
| Laticauda | Laurenti, 1768 | 7 | 2 | Sea kraits | |
| Loveridgelaps | McDowell, 1970 | 1 | 0 | Solomon's small-eyed snake | |
| Micropechis | Boulenger, 1896 | 1 | 0 | New Guinea small-eyed snake | |
| Notechis | Boulenger, 1896 | 2 | 4 | Tiger snakes | |
| Ogmodon | Peters, 1864 | 1 | 0 | Fiji cobra | |
| Oxyuranus | Kinghorn, 1923 | 2 | 1 | Taipans | |
| Pailsus | Hoser, 1998 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Parahydrophis | Burger & Natsuno, 1974 | 1 | 0 | Northern mangrove sea snake | |
| Parapistocalamus | Roux, 1934 | 1 | 0 | Hediger's snake | |
| Pelamis | Daudin, 1803 | 1 | 0 | Yellow-bellied sea snake | |
| Pseudechis | Wagler, 1830 | 7 | 2 | King brown snakes | |
| Pseudonaja | Günther, 1858 | 8 | 3 | Venomous brown snakes | |
| Rhinoplocephalus | Müller, 1885 | 6 | 0 | ||
| Salomonelaps | McDowell, 1970 | 1 | 0 | Solomons coral snake | |
| Simoselaps | Jan, 1859 | 14 | 3 | Australian coral snakes | |
| Suta | Worrell, 1961 | 10 | 2 | ||
| Thalassophina | Schmidt, 1852 | 1 | 0 | Schmidt's sea snake | |
| Thalassophis | P. Schmidt, 1852 | 1 | 0 | Anomalous sea snake | |
| Toxicocalamus | Boulenger, 1896 | 9 | 1 | Forest snakes | |
| Tropidechis | Günther, 1863 | 2 | 0 | Rough-scaled snakes | |
| Vermicella | Gray in Gunther, 1858 | 5 | 0 | Bandy-bandys |
*) Not including the nominotype (typical form).
External links
- EMBL Reptile Database - Family Elapidae
- Animal Diversity Web - Elapidae
- Animal Diversity Web - Hydrophiidae