"Hydrophiidae" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A subfamily of marine elapid snakes comprising about 50 species with flattened oar-like tails used as sculls. They are found mostly in the coastal waters of south Asia and Australia. The largest reach a length of almost 9 feet but most species are only about a third as long. They are all venomous. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, pp331-3; Moore: Poisonous Snakes of the World, 1980, p159)
| Descriptor ID |
D000073180
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.833.672.125.875.564
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| Concept/Terms |
Hydrophiidae- Hydrophiidae
- Hydrophiinae
- Sea Snakes
- Sea Snake
- Snake, Sea
- Snakes, Sea
- Hydrophidae
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