Najakcharmer -> RE: What Do These Things Have In Common? (11/29/2006 8:46:10 PM)
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ORIGINAL: dcnovice quote:
Naja Dendroaspis Ophiophagus Bungarus Thius one was sort of answered but not to the poster's satisfaction. I'm gonna guess (with help from a certain search engine that shall remain nameless) that they're snakes whose venom is toxic enough to kill a human. That would technically be true, as would "they are all venomous snakes", but it's still not the right answer. I'll give it - they are all Elapidae, front fanged (proteroglyphic) elapids. It's a specific niche as venomous snakies go. Among the snakes with fangs, there's vipers, elapids and opistoglyphic (rear fanged) colubrids, and those four (true cobras of the genus Naja, mambas, king cobras and kraits) are all elapids.
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