Hydrophis platurus in litore Costaricae

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Animalia — Chordata

Classis : Reptilia 
Ordo : Squamata 
Subordo : Serpentes 
Familia : Elapidae 
Subfamilia : Hydrophiinae 

   

Palaeontologia

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Territorium

Distributio geographica (viridis), praeter Hydrophem platurum, speciem pelagicam maxime divulgatam

Hydrophiinae sunt subfamilia anguium venenosorum familiae Elapidarum. In circumiectis maritimis plerumque habitant. Plurimae ad vitam plene aquaticam omnino accommodantur, et praeter serpentes generis Laticaudae, in terra bene movere nequeunt. In calidis aquis litoralibus ab Oceano Indico ad Oceanum Pacificum inventae, arte cum anguibus venenosis terrestribus in Australia coniunguntur.^[2] Hydrophiinae in Oceano Atlantico non fiunt.^[3]

Omnibus anguibus maritimis sunt caudae remiformes, et multis sunt corpora lateraliter complanata, quam ob rem anguillarum similes videntur. Piscium autem dissimiles, eis non sunt branchiae; ergo eis supra superficiem spirandum est. Cum cetaceis, inter vertebrata planissime aquatica sunt quae aerem suspirant.^[4] In hoc grege taxinomico sunt species quibus sunt potentissimum omnium anguium venenum. Nonnullis autem sunt indoles clementes, qui solum irritati mordeant, cum alii hostiliores sint. Familiae hodie sunt sexaginta novem species in septendecim genera digestae.^[5][6]

Descriptio

Plurimi hydrophiinarum adulti a 120 ad 150 centimetra longi crescunt,^[7] et maximus, Hydrophis spiralis, usque ad 3 metra attingit.^[8] Oculi sunt parvi, pupilla rotunda,^[9] et plurimis sunt nares dorsaliter siti.^[3] Calvaria a calvariis elapidarum terrestrium non multum differunt, quamquam eorum dentitio est aliquantulum primitiva, dentibus brevibus et (praeter Emydocephalum) usque ad duodeviginti dentibus minoribus post eos in maxilla.^[4]

Hydrophiinae parvis piscibus et aliquando octopodis iuvenibus vescuntur. Saepe cum Platylepatibus ophiophilis consociantur, cirripediis maritimis, quae sese ad eorum cutim affigere solent.^[10]

Nexus interni

• Morsus anguis
• Serpens marinus

Notae

Bibliographia

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• Gopalakrishnakone, P., ed. 1994. Sea snake toxinology. Singapurae: Singapore University Press, National University of Singapore. ISBN 9971691930, ISBN 9971691914.
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• Kharin, V. E. 2004. "On the taxonomic status of the sea snake Hydrophis caerulescens (Shaw, 1802) (Serpentes: Hydrophiidae)." Biologiya Morya (Vladivostok) 30 (3): 227–29.
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Nexus externi

Situs scientifici:  • ITIS • Encyclopedia of Life • WoRMS: Marine Species • Fossilworks

• Sea Snakes in Australia
• Sea Snakes at Scubadoc's Diving Medicine Online. Situs accessus 6 Augusti 2007.
• Diving Gunung Api: Volcano Of The Sea Snakes - first hand account of scuba divers interacting with sea snakes at the Indonesian volcano Gunung Api, Iunius 2009
• Alexis Gillham, Man cheats sea snake, Townsville Bulletin, 8 Novembris 2010. Situs accessus 8 Novembris 2010