Structured Summary
Abstract
The largest family of snakes comprising five subfamilies: Colubrinae, Natricinae, Homalopsinae, Lycodontinae, and Xenodontinae. They show a great diversity of eating habits, from eating almost anything to having a specialized diet. They can be oviparous, ovoviviparous, or viviparous. The majority of North American snakes are colubrines. Among the colubrids are king snakes, water snakes, and garter snakes. Some genera are poisonous. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, pp321-29)
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Synonyms
17 entry terms
- Colubrid Snakes
- Colubrid Snake
- Snake, Colubrid
- Colubrinae
- Garter Snake
- King Snake
- Lampropeltis
- Natrix
- Thamnophis
- Toxicodryas
- Water Snake
- Garter Snakes
- King Snakes
- Snake, Garter
- Snake, King
- Snake, Water
- Water Snakes
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17 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings abnormalities, anatomy & histology, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, classification, embryology, genetics, growth & development, immunology, injuries, metabolism, microbiology, parasitology, physiology, surgery, urine, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
its venom: coordinate with SNAKE VENOMS
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94
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Previous Indexing
- Snakes (1968-1993)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Colubridae. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017812. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017812
- Colubridae. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colubridae
- Colubridae. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182751