Hi folks,

may be that this is a bit a stupid question, but it has to be...

i just was on this page: http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species.php?genus=Acanthophis&species=antarcticus and i recognised, the higher taxa.
Shouldn't there stand elapidae? I don't think, that Acanthophis are sea snake's.

Regards Ambros

Not really wrong, Ambros, just another opinion.

They put all sea snakes and australian elapids in the family Hydrophiidae - others see a family Elapidae with the two subfamilies Hydrophiinae and Elapinae.

The more common opinion has been posted here.
http://www.venomland.net/t2271-what-is-the-true-classification-of-australian-elapids

Best regards
Peter

Treating the Hydrophiidae as a separate family is a minority opinion nowadays. Most recent papers treat them as a subfamily of the Elapidae, i.e., the Hydrophiinae.

Thank you very much Peter and Wolfgang, for your, (like always) very competent replays. It looks like i still have to read and learn a lot.
The reason why i am asking is, that i want to make a similar page like the reptile database in german. Not so professional, but nicer, with more info about the single species and of course nice Pictures .
Lots and lots of work to do.

I know there are lots of pages out there like these, i just like to do things like this and if nobody needs it, then it's just for me.
I'm open for all hint's from you.
Thanks again and best regards Ambros