Sea krait, the Glossary
Sea kraits are a genus of venomous elapid sea snakes (subfamily: Laticaudinae), Laticauda.[1]
Table of Contents
51 relations: Adaptation, Albert Günther, Anatomical terms of location, Australasia, Binomial nomenclature, Black-banded sea krait, Blue-lipped sea krait, Bluefin trevally, Bungarus, Carl Linnaeus, Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt, Charles Walter De Vis, Conger, Convergent evolution, Crocker's sea snake, Eastern states of Australia, Elapidae, Evolution, Genus, Harold Cogger, Hermann Schlegel, Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, Joseph Richard Slevin, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, Katuali, Laticauda frontalis, Laticauda guineai, Latin, Littoral zone, Mating ball, Maxilla, Moray eel, Morphology (biology), New Caledonia, New Caledonian sea krait, New Zealand, Niue, Nota bene, Oviparity, Ovoviviparity, Phenotypic trait, Sea snake, Semiaquatic, Species, Sweater, Tick, Ventral scales, Vladimir Kharin (zoologist), Yellow goatfish, Yellow-lipped sea krait, ... Expand index (1 more) »
- Laticauda
- Sea snakes
Adaptation
In biology, adaptation has three related meanings.
Albert Günther
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3October 18301February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.
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Anatomical terms of location
Standard anatomical terms of location are used to unambiguously describe the anatomy of animals, including humans.
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Australasia
Australasia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising Australia, New Zealand, and some neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Binomial nomenclature
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.
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Black-banded sea krait
The black-banded sea krait (Laticauda semifasciata), also known commonly as the Chinese sea snake, is a largely amphibious species of venomous marine reptile in the subfamily Laticaudinae, family Elapidae (cobras, mambas, coralsnakes and their kin). Sea krait and black-banded sea krait are laticauda.
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Blue-lipped sea krait
The blue-lipped sea krait (Laticauda laticaudata), also known as the blue-banded sea krait or common sea krait, is a species of venomous sea snake in the subfamily Laticaudinae of the family Elapidae. Sea krait and blue-lipped sea krait are laticauda.
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Bluefin trevally
The bluefin trevally (Caranx melampygus), also known as the bluefin jack, bluefin kingfish, bluefinned crevalle, blue ulua, omilu, and spotted trevally, is a species of large, widely distributed marine fish classified in the jack family, Carangidae.
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Bungarus
Bungarus (commonly known as kraits) is a genus of venomous snakes in the family Elapidae.
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
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Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt
Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (5 June 1773 in Lüttringhausen – 6 March 1854 in Leiden) was a Prussian-born Dutch botanist.
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Charles Walter De Vis
Charles Walter de Vis (9 May 1829, Birmingham, England – 30 April 1915, Brisbane, Queensland Australia) — Australian Dictionary of Biography was an English zoologist, ornithologist, — Encyclopedia of Australian science herpetologist,"De Vis".
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Conger
Conger is a genus of marine congrid eels.
Convergent evolution
Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time.
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Crocker's sea snake
Crocker's sea snake (Laticauda crockeri) is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Laticaudinae of the family Elapidae. Sea krait and Crocker's sea snake are laticauda.
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Eastern states of Australia
The eastern states of Australia are the states adjoining the east continental coastline of Australia.
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Elapidae
Elapidae (commonly known as elapids; ἔλλοψ "sea-fish") is a family of snakes characterized by their permanently erect fangs at the front of the mouth.
Evolution
Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
Harold Cogger
Harold George "Hal" Cogger (born 4 May 1935) is an Australian herpetologist.
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Hermann Schlegel
Hermann Schlegel (10 June 1804 – 17 January 1884) was a German ornithologist, herpetologist and ichthyologist.
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Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider
Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (18 January 1750 – 12 January 1822) was a German classicist and naturalist.
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Joseph Richard Slevin
Joseph Richard Slevin (September 13, 1881 – February 17, 1957) was an American herpetologist and the second curator of herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences, with which he was affiliated for over 50 years.
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Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti
Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (4 December 1735, Vienna – 17 February 1805, Vienna) was an Austrian naturalist and zoologist of Italian origin.
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Katuali
The katuali or flat-tail sea snake (Laticauda schistorhyncha) is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae. Sea krait and katuali are laticauda.
Laticauda frontalis
Laticauda frontalis is a sea snake in the family Elapidae first described by De Vis in 1905. Sea krait and Laticauda frontalis are laticauda.
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Laticauda guineai
Laticauda guineai is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae. Sea krait and Laticauda guineai are laticauda.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Littoral zone
The littoral zone, also called litoral or nearshore, is the part of a sea, lake, or river that is close to the shore.
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Mating ball
''Thamnophis'' Mating balls are a brief gregarious structure resulting from a mating behaviour wherein a large number of individuals cluster together while mating.
Maxilla
In vertebrates, the maxilla (maxillae) is the upper fixed (not fixed in Neopterygii) bone of the jaw formed from the fusion of two maxillary bones.
Moray eel
Moray eels, or Muraenidae, are a family of eels whose members are found worldwide.
Morphology (biology)
Morphology in biology is the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.
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New Caledonia
New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie) is a ''sui generis'' collectivity of overseas France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about east of Australia, and from Metropolitan France.
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New Caledonian sea krait
The New Caledonian sea krait (Laticauda saintgironsi) is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Laticaudinae of the family Elapidae. Sea krait and New Caledonian sea krait are laticauda.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
Niue
Niue (Niuē) is a self-governing island country in free association with New Zealand.
Nota bene
Nota bene (or; plural: notate bene) is the Latin phrase meaning note well.
Oviparity
Oviparous animals are animals that reproduce by depositing fertilized zygotes outside the body (known as laying or spawning) in metabolically independent incubation organs known as eggs, which nurture the embryo into moving offsprings known as hatchlings with little or no embryonic development within the mother.
Ovoviviparity
Ovoviviparity, ovovivipary, ovivipary, or aplacental viviparity is a term used as a "bridging" form of reproduction between egg-laying oviparous and live-bearing viviparous reproduction.
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Phenotypic trait
A phenotypic trait, simply trait, or character state is a distinct variant of a phenotypic characteristic of an organism; it may be either inherited or determined environmentally, but typically occurs as a combination of the two.
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Sea snake
Sea snakes, or coral reef snakes, are elapid snakes that inhabit marine environments for most or all of their lives. Sea krait and Sea snake are sea snakes.
Semiaquatic
In biology, being semi-aquatic refers to various macroorganisms that live regularly in both aquatic and terrestrial environments.
Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Sweater
A sweater (North American English) or pullover, also called a jersey or jumper (British English and Australian English), in Collins English Dictionary: "a knitted or crocheted garment covering the upper part of the body" is a piece of clothing, typically with long sleeves, made of knitted or crocheted material that covers the upper part of the body.
Tick
Ticks are parasitic arachnids of the order Ixodida.
Ventral scales
In snakes, the ventral scales or gastrosteges are the enlarged and transversely elongated scales that extend down the underside of the body from the neck to the anal scale.
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Vladimir Kharin (zoologist)
Vladimir Yemelyanovich Kharin (1957–2013) was a Russian zoologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and a specialist in sea snakes.
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Yellow goatfish
The yellow goatfish (Mulloidichthys martinicus), also known as yellowsaddle, is a species of goatfish native to the Atlantic Ocean around the coasts of Africa and the Americas.
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Yellow-lipped sea krait
The yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina), also known as the banded sea krait or colubrine sea krait, is a species of venomous sea snake found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceanic waters. Sea krait and yellow-lipped sea krait are laticauda.
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10th edition of Systema Naturae
The 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Latin; the English title is A General System of Nature) is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.
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See also
Laticauda
- Black-banded sea krait
- Blue-lipped sea krait
- Crocker's sea snake
- Katuali
- Laticauda frontalis
- Laticauda guineai
- New Caledonian sea krait
- Sea krait
- Yellow-lipped sea krait
Sea snakes
- Aipysurus
- Emydocephalus
- Hydrelaps
- Hydrophis
- Laticauda
- Northern mangrove seasnake
- Pterosphenus
- Sea krait
- Sea snake
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_krait
Also known as Laticauda, Laticaudinae, Sea crate, Sea kraits, Tricot rayé.