Homalopsidae
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The Homalopsidae are a family of snakes which contains about 30 genera and more than 50 species. They are commonly known as Indo-Australian water snakes, mudsnakes, or bockadams. They are also known as {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (lit. "water snake") in Indonesian. They are typically stout-bodied water snakes, and all are mildly venomous. Two monotypic genera are notable for their unusual morphology: Erpeton possesses a pair of short, fleshy appendages protruding from the front of the snout, and Bitia has uniquely enlarged palatine teeth. Cerberus species have been noted to use sidewinding to cross slick mud flats during low tide. Fordonia and Gerarda are the only snakes known to tear their prey apart before eating it, pulling soft-shelled crabs through their coils to rip them apart prior to ingestion.<ref name = "Jayne2">Template:Cite journal </ref>
GeneraEdit
- Bitia Template:Small
- Brachyorrhos Template:Small
- Calamophis Template:Small
- Cantoria Template:Small
- Cerberus Template:Small
- Dieurostus Template:Small
- Djokoiskandarus Template:Small
- Enhydris Template:Small
- Erpeton Template:Small
- Ferania Template:Small
- Fordonia Template:Small
- Gerarda Template:Small
- Gyiophis Template:Small
- Heurnia Template:Small
- Homalophis Template:Small
- Homalopsis Template:Small
- Hypsiscopus Template:Small
- Karnsophis Template:Small
- Kualatahan Template:Small
- Mintonophis Template:Small
- Miralia Template:Small
- Myanophis Template:Small<ref>Template:Cite journal (Myanophis, new genus; M. thanlyinensis, new species).</ref>
- Myron Template:Small
- Myrrophis Template:Small
- Phytolopsis Template:Small
- Pseudoferania Template:Small
- Raclitia Template:Small
- Subsessor Template:Small
- Sumatranus Template:Small
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Further readingEdit
- Bonaparte CL (1845). "Specchio generale dei sistemi erpetologico, anfibiologico ed ittiologico". Atti della Riunione degli Scienziati Italiani 6: 376–378. (Homalopsidae, new family). (in Italian).
- Goin CJ, Goin OB, Zug GR (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company. xi + 378 pp. Template:ISBN. (Subfamily Homalopsinae, pp. 326–327).