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Id http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D000073180
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Preferred Name

Hydrophiidae

Definitions
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)
Synonyms
Aipysurus
Hydrophidae
Sea Snake
Snake, Sea
Hydrophiinae
Sea Snakes
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