Definition of Suborder serpentes

1. Noun. Snakes.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Suborder Serpentes

suborder Percoidea
suborder Petromyzoniformes
suborder Pinnipedia
suborder Plesiosauria
suborder Prosauropoda
suborder Prosimii
suborder Reptantia
suborder Ruminantia
suborder Sauria
suborder Sauropoda
suborder Sauropodomorpha
suborder Sciuromorpha
suborder Scombroidea
suborder Scorpaenoidea
suborder Serpentes
suborder Strepsirhini
suborder Tarsioidea
suborder Theropoda
suborder Thyreophora
suborder Tyranni
suborder Xenarthra
suborder Zygoptera
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Literary usage of Suborder serpentes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Herpetology of Porto Rico by Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1904)
"Suborder SERPENTES. The snakes are but poorly represented in Porto Rico, both as to species and, at present at least, as to individuals. ..."

2. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1903)
"Suborder SERPENTES. e. Non venomous species; no pit between eye and nostril ; no fangs. /. None of the dorsal scales keeled. g. Anal plate divided. ..."

3. Ecology, Diversity and Sustainability of the Middle Rio Grande Basin edited by Deborah M. Finch, Joseph A. Tainter (1996)
"... (lizards) Squamata- suborder serpentes (snakes) Threatened, Endangered, and Candidate Species tiger salamander Plains spadefoot toad Couch's spadefoot ..."

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