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Description of a New Cobra (Naja Laurenti, 1768; Squamata, Elapidae) from China with Designation of a Neotype for Naja atra

Animals, 2022
Simple Summary Cobras (Naja Laurenti, 1768) are a group of well-known highly venomous snakes, which cause numerous cases of snakebites every year, especially in South Asia and Southern China.
Shengchao Shi, G. Vogel, Li Ding, D. Rao, Shuo Liu, Liang Zhang, Zhengan Wu, Zening Chen   +7 more
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Annotated checklist of semi- venomous and venomous snakes of Iraq [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 2016
This study includes a check-list of semi-venomous and venomous snakes in Iraq along with their distribution and classification. Collectively, from the family Clubridae, three genera, and seven species of semi-venomous snakes and from the families ...
Israa Nadhim Habeeb, Rasoul Karamiani, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani   +2 more
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Multiple lines of evidence reveal a new species of Krait (Squamata, Elapidae, Bungarus) from Southwestern China and Northern Myanmar

ZooKeys, 2021
Kraits of the genus Bungarus Daudin 1803 are widely known venomous snakes distributed from Iran to China and Indonesia. Here, we use a combination of mitochondrial DNA sequence data and morphological data to describe a new species from Yingjiang County ...
Zening Chen, Shengchao Shi, G. Vogel, L. Ding, Jingsong Shi   +4 more
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Two Genetically Distinct yet Morphologically Indistinct Bungarus Species (Squamata, Elapidae) in Hong Kong

Current Herpetology, 2022
: Kraits (genus Bungarus) are a group of highly venomous elapid snakes found across tropical Asia. Although they are notorious for causing many, often deadly, envenomations throughout the continent, their taxonomy and species nomenclature is subject to ...
Felix Landry Yuan, Tracey-Leigh Prigge, Yik‐Hei Sung, C. Dingle, T. Bonebrake   +4 more
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Evolution of the Noncoding Features of Sea Snake Mitochondrial Genomes within Elapidae

Genes, 2022
Mitochondrial genomes of four elapid snakes (three marine species [Emydocephalus ijimae, Hydrophis ornatus, and Hydrophis melanocephalus], and one terrestrial species [Sinomicrurus japonicus]) were completely sequenced by a combination of Sanger ...
Xiakena Xiaokaiti, Y. Hashiguchi, H. Ota, Y. Kumazawa   +3 more
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Retraction Note: Severe Viperidae envenomation complicated by a state of shock, acute kidney injury, and gangrene presenting late at the emergency department: a case report

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2020
The authors have retracted this case report [1] because the head of the snake shown in Figure 1 and described as being that of a viper (Echis occellatus) is identical to the head of a snake shown in Figure 1 of a different case report [2] where it was ...
Agnès Esiéné, Paul Owono Etoundi, Joel Noutakdie Tochie, Arlette Junette Mbengono Metogo, Jacqueline Ze Minkande   +4 more
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A review of neogene and quaternary snakes of Central and Eastern Europe. Part 11: natricinae, elapidae, viperidae

Estudios Geologicos, 1991
Se revisan y estudian los restos neógenos y cuaternarios de colúbridos «natricinos», elápidos y vipéridos, incluyendo tanto serpientes previamente descritas como- otras inéditas.
Z. Szyndlar
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First record of Micrurus lemniscatus (Elapidae) in the state of Piauí, northeastern Brazil

Caldasia, 2022
Micrurus lemniscatus is widely distributed in South America, and in Brazil is known from the Amazonian Forest, Cerrado, and Babassu Palm Forest biomes. Herein, we provide the first record of this species for the state of Piauí in northeastern Brazil and ...
Sâmia Caroline Melo Araújo, Lucas Rafael Uchôa, C. Costa, F. Sena, E. Andrade   +4 more
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From matte banded to glossy black: structures underlying colour change in the caudal lures of southern death adders (Acanthophis antarcticus, Reptilia: Elapidae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2021
Many ambush-foraging snakes move their tails to entice prey within striking range (‘caudal luring’). During ontogeny, the conspicuous hues of caudal lures change to match the cryptic patterning of the body/head.
J. Crowe-Riddell, Stacey Dix, Ludo Pieterman, James H. Nankivell, Matthew D. Ford, Alastair J. Ludington, Bruno F. Simões, N. Dunstan, J. Partridge, K. Sanders, L. Allen   +10 more
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Taxonomic revision of the king cobra Ophiophagus hannah (Cantor, 1836) species complex (Reptilia: Serpentes: Elapidae), with the description of two new species

European Journal of Taxonomy
The taxonomy of king cobras (Ophiophagus) was reevaluated using qualitative, mensural and meristic characters, based on 148 entire and five skeletal specimens, and supported by a recent molecular phylogenetic analysis.
Indraneil Das, P. Gowri Shankar, Priyanka Swamy, Rhiannon C. Williams, H. T. Lalremsanga, P. Prashanth, Gunanidhi Sahoo, S. Vijayakumar, Jacob Höglund, K. Shanker, Sushil K. Dutta, S. R. Ganesh, Wolfgang Wüster   +12 more
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