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Elapidae

NOUN
  1. cobras; kraits; mambas; coral snakes; Australian taipan and tiger snakes

How To Use Elapidae In A Sentence

  • In the paper “A new species of taipan (Elapidae: Oxyuranus) from central Australia”, researchers P. Doughty, B. Maryan, S.C. Donnellan and M.N. Hutchinson (in Zootaxa 1422: 45-58: 2007) described Oxyuranus temporalis. Archive 2007-03-01
  • Polypeptide neurotoxins act as competitive antagonists and include the venoms from snakes of the Elapidae (cobras, kraits, mambas, coral snakes, etc.) and Hydrophidae (sea snakes) families.
  • Australian venomous snakes, belonging exclusively to the Elapidae family, are among the most toxic in the world.
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