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| | Snakebites from Coral Snakes and Cobras - PetPlace.com |
 | | Due to the relatively small size of some dogs in proportion to the amount of venom injected, the bite of even a small snake may be fatal. | | | This is probably due to the small size of the snakes head and it’s difficulty in opening the mouth wide enough to bite and envemon a dog. | | | Elapine snakes have short fangs and tend to hang on and “chew” venom into their victims. |
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| | Search Results for elapidae - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | New World coral snakes range in size from 40 to 160 cm (16 to 63 inches) and are... | | | any of about 200 venomous species of the snake family Elapidae, characterized by short fangs fixed in the front of the upper jaw. | | | It is brown above and yellow below, with a small head and ridged... |
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| | Taxonomy of Acanthophis pyrrhus (Reptilia: Elapidae) |
| | Hoser, R. 1997 The mating behaviour and breeding of Australian Death Adders, genus Acanthophis (Serpentes: Elapidae). | | | Reptilian, 3 (5): 27-34 : Hoser, R. 1997 The mating behaviour and breeding of Australian Death Adders, genus Acanthophis (Serpentes: Elapidae). | | | Hoser, R. 1985 Genetic composition of Death Adders (Acanthophis antarcticus: Serpentes: Elapidae) in the West Head area. |
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| | Shine, R. Venomous snakes in cold climates: ecology of the Australian genus Drysdalia (Serpentes: Elapidae). | | | Shine, R. Reproduction, feeding and growth in the Australian burrowing snake Vermicella annulata. | | | Oviparity and captive breeding in the spotted blacksnake, Pseudechis guttatus (Serpentes: Elapidae). |
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| | Snakes of North Carolina |
| | The Elapidae are equipped with short, immoveable fangs and highly toxic venom that attacks the nervous system. | | | All vipers have long, moveable fangs capable of injecting venom and pit vipers are equipped with heat-sensitive pits between their eye and nostril that aid in hunting warm-blooded (endothermic) prey. | | | The snakes of North Carolina can be separated into three different families: the Colubridae, Elapidae, and Viperidae. |
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| | Palaeos Vertebrates 260.500 Pythonomorpha: Colubroidea |
| | Characters: small to medium-sized snakes; blunt-headed; maxilla is extremely reduced; maxilla with elongated, hollow maxillary fang; maxilla has complex articulation with prefrontal; short tails; fossorial; solenoglyphs; oviparous with clutches of 2-11; feed upon newborn rodents and other fossorial reptiles | | | Largely ambush predators of mammals, injecting venom, then following scent trail. | | | Links: viperidae; Encyclopedia Entry; Viperidae; Family- Viperidae (ADW); Reptilia, Squamata, Ophidia, Viperidae - Vipern (German); Viperidae.html (just pictures); Viperidae Familyasi (Turkish); I Viperidi, Viperidae (Italian: very thorough coverage); PERIODICAL INDEX - ELAPIDAE AND VIPERIDAE SNAKES (bibliography); FAMILY VIPERIDAE- VENOMOUS (survey of viperids in SE U.S.);... |
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| | elapsoidea - critiques checklist |
| | In another revolutionary proposal that threatened taxonomic upheaval in the family Elapidae, McDowell (1968) demonstrated that the type genus Elaps (containing the South African species E. lacteus and E. dorsalis) was not related to other proteroglyph snakes, but had closer affinities with aparallactine colubrids. | | | The family Elapidae has been the focus of intensive study in recent years, stimulated in no small measure by the provocative studies of Sam McDowell. | | | McDowell, S. Aspidomorphus, a genus of New Guinea snakes of the family Elapidae, with notes on related genera. |
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| | cobra on Encyclopedia.com |
| | name for African and Asian snakes of the family Elapidae that are equipped with inflatable neck hoods. | | | The family also includes the African mambas, the Asian kraits, the New World coral snakes and a large number of Australian snakes. | | | The ringhals is the only cobra that bears live young. |
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| | Elapidae2001 |
| | Rasmussen, A.R., M. Auliya and W. Böhme (2001) A new species of sea snake genus Hydrophis (Serpentes: Elapidae) from a river in West Kalimantan (Indonesia, Borneo). | | | The generic classification of these snakes has been subject to confusion and controversy for some time, with some species being assigned to the genus Hemibungarus, but without much robust evidence (see comments on Elapidae 1999 page). | | | Both molecular and morphological studies support the hypothesis that this assemblage constitutes the sister group to the New World coral snakes. |
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| | Elapidae venom is used as antivenin in instances of Elapid snakebite. | | | The alpha-neurotoxins in Elapidae venom have been used to study the autoimmune disorder Erb-Golflam's disease (myasthenia gravis), which is characterized by a deficiency of cholinergic receptors. | | | Specifically, antivenin developed from Tiger Snake venom will neutralize all venoms from other Australian Snakes, with the exception of the Taipan. |
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| | Antivenin, cholinesterase inhibitors, and mechanical ventilation are treatments to consider in such envenomations. | | | Elapidae venom, because of a curare-like property, can produce respiratory compromise followed by death within 10 minutes. | | | Another family of snakes, the Elapidae, are not so common, but their bites may be a threat to zoo keepers and persons who have exotic snakes as pets. |
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| | Elapidae |
| | Taxonomy and natural history of the Australian bandy-bandy snakes (Elapidae: Vermicella) with the description of two new species. | | | Notechis may carry up to 100 embryos (usually 20-40). | | | Inferring species trees from gene trees: A phylogenetic analysis of the Elapidae (Serpentes) based on the amino acid sequences of venom proteins. |
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| | Elapidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Elapidae is a family of venomous snakes that includes the cobras, mambas, kraits, sea snakes and coral snakes, as well as all the venomous snakes of Australia such as taipans, brown snakes or death adders. | | | It was still later moved back to the Elapidae, but no longer to subfamily Elapinae. | | | The elapids have hollow fangs located at the front of the mouth, but these fangs cannot be erected like those of the true vipers belonging to the Viperidae family. |
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| | Arizona Coral Snake (Micruroides euryxanthus) |
| | Order: Squamata Family: Elapidae (fixed front- fang venomous snakes) | | | The best way to identify a coral snake is by: 1) a very blunt head that is black to behind the eyes, and 2) bands that completely encircle the body, along with the yellow or white bands occurring on both sides of the red bands. |
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| | eMedicine - Snakebite : Article by Brian James Daley, MD, MBA, FACS |
| | Copperheads are found in aquatic and dry environments, and rattlesnakes prefer dry grasslands and rocky hillsides. | | | Nineteen species of poisonous snakes make North America their home. | | | The eastern and western species that inhabit the United States are smaller and brightly colored with red, yellow, and black rings. |
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| | Snake envenomations: Elapidae |
| | In the US these include the genera Micrurus and Micruroides, commonly called "Coral Snakes." The Sonoran or Arizona coral snake is found mainly in Arizona (Micruroides euryxanthus), the Texas coral snake (Micrurus fulvius tenere) in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and the eastern coral snake (Micrurus fulvius fulvius) throughout the Southeastern US. | | | Unlike Crotalidae envenomations, local signs and symptoms are mild in envenomation of Elapidae, even those which prove to be severe envenomations. | | | Neurologic symptoms may be delayed; they have been reported to develop up to 12 or more hours after the envenomation. |
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| | The Elapidae are a family of venomous snakes that are distinguished by proteroglyph dentition, a maxilla that is longer than that of the Viperidae | | | The majority of Australian land snakes are in the family | | | They resemble Colubrids, with heads not larger than their necks, long cylindrical bodies and smooth scales (Pough 1998, Greene 1997). |
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| | UT Health Science Center - Health Leader, Snakebite |
| | The United States has two kinds of poisonous snakes, elapidae (coral snakes) and crotalidae (the rest: rattlesnakes, copperheads, water moccasins and cottonmouths). | | | Doctors can judge the type and severity of the bite by the victim's systemic response. | | | Identifying the snake is helpful, but King says, "If you bring the snake in, bring it dead." Seriously, killing or catching the snake is risky and unnecessary. |
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| | Tentative inclusion in Elapidae is based on the large size of the Siwalik specimens, relatively small paralymphatic channels, and concave ventral margin of the centrum. | | | If the specimens do belong to Ophiophagus, then they represent the only fossil occurrence of the genus and a northern geographic range extension. | | | Although the referred specimens can be united on the basis of the characters used to compare them with Ophiophagus, they cannot be unambiguously diagnosed to the genus or even to Elapidae. |
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| | Family: Laticaudinae & Hydrophidae |
| | Hydrophidae is a subfamily of elapidae, these snakes are specialized the oceans. | | | Fishermen occasionally get bit by a sea snake caught in a net. |
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| | SNAKES - Online Information article about SNAKES |
| | further differentiation in three new lines has taken place,—(z) the harmless Amblycephalidae as a side-issue, (2) the very poisonous proteroglyphous Elapidae, (3) the moderately or incipiently poisonous Opisthoglypha, out of some of which seem to have arisen the venomous Viperidae. | | | No ectopterygoid; pterygoid not extending to quadrate; no supratemporal or squamosal; prefrontal forming a suture with nasal; coronoid present; vestiges of See also: |
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| | Curl, Robert -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | The curl snake belongs to the cobra family, Elapidae, characterized by short, hollow, fixed fangs that deliver a paralyzing venom. |
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| | Free Science Essays |
| | The Inland Taipan The Oxyuranus microlepidotus (inland taipan) is a member of the family Elapidae (elapid snakes), and belongs to the Genus Oxyuranus. | | | The back, sides and tail are of a buff brown colour, and it's eyes... | | | The Development Of Calculus Calculus, being a difficult subject, therefore requires much more than the intuition and genius of one man. It took the work and ideas of many great men to establish the advanced concepts... |
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| | coral snake on Encyclopedia.com |
| | They feed on other snakes and on lizards. | | | Coral snakes are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Reptilia, order Squamata, family Elapidae. | | | Publication: The Palm Beach Post; Author: Palm Beach Post Staff and Wire Services ; Source: NEWSPAPERS |
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