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Colubrine Snakes
(Subfamily Colubrinae)
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The Colubrinae are a subfamily of the family Colubridae of snakes. It includes numerous genera, and although taxonomic sources often disagree on the exact number, The Reptile Database lists 698 species in 97 genera as of May 2018. It is the second largest subfamily of colubrids, after Dipsadinae. Many of the most commonly known snakes are members of this subfamily, including rat snakes, king snakes, milk snakes, vine snakes, and indigo snakes.
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Genus Colubrina
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Colubrina is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia, northern Australia, and the Indian Ocean islands. Common names include nakedwood, snakewood, greenheart and hogplum. The generic name is derived from the Latin word coluber, meaning "snake", and refers to the snake-like stems or stamens.
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Texas Snakewood
(Colubrina texensis)
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Colubrina texensis, the Texas snakewood or Texas hog plum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae, native to Texas and northeastern Mexico. A 3 to 6 ft (0.9 to 1.8 m) deciduous shrub with zig-zagging branches and patterned bark, it is typically found growing in dry, poor soils.
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Yellow-lipped Sea Krait
(Laticauda colubrina)
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The yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina), also known as the banded sea krait, colubrine sea krait, is a species of venomous sea snake found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceanic waters. The snake has distinctive black stripes and a yellow snout, with a paddle-like tail for use in swimming.
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Latherleaf
(Colubrina asiatica)
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Colubrina asiatica is a shrub in the family Rhamnaceae that is native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World, from eastern Africa to India, southeast Asia, tropical Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Common names include latherleaf, Asian nakedwood and Asian snakewood.
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Red Angico
(Anadenanthera colubrina)
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Anadenanthera colubrina (also known as vilca, huilco, huilca, wilco, willka, curupay, cebil, or angico) is a South American tree closely related to Yopo, or Anadenanthera peregrina. It grows to 5–20 m (16–66 ft) tall and the trunk is very thorny. The leaves are mimosa-like, up to 30 cm (12 in) in length and they fold up at night. In Chile, A. colubrina produces flowers from September to December and bean pods from
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Sierra Nakedwood
(Colubrina greggii)
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Colubrina greggii is a species of flowering plant in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae, that is commonly known as the Sierra nakedwood or Gregg's colubrina. It is native to eastern Mexico, with a disjunct population in southern Texas in the United States. It is very similar to C. arborescens of Southern Florida and the Caribbean, and herbarium specimens of the two species are difficult to distinguish. The name honours American botanist Josiah Gregg (1806 – 1850),
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Common Madagascar Cat Snake
(Madagascarophis colubrinus)
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Madagascarophis colubrinus is a species of snake of the family Colubridae.
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Soldierwood
(Colubrina elliptica)
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Colubrina elliptica, Mabi or Soldierwood, is a species of flowering tree in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae, that is native to the Florida Keys, the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, and Venezuela.
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East African Sand Boa
(Eryx colubrinus)
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Gongylophis colubrinus, the Kenyan sand boa, is a boa species found in Northern Kenya. No subspecies are currently recognized.
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Las Animas Colubrina
(Colubrina californica)
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Colubrina californica is a species of shrub in the buckthorn family known by the common name Las Animas Nakedwood. It is native to the Sonoran Desert of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in desert scrub habitat. The thorny shrub has deciduous leaves, oval in shape and coated in silky hairs. The inflorescence is a dense cluster of several tiny nectar-filled flowers. It blooms in April and May after the ground is...
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Common Thicket Oxtongue
(Gasteria bicolor var. bicolor)
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Kauila
(Colubrina oppositifolia)
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Colubrina oppositifolia, known as Kauila in Hawaiian, is a species of flowering tree in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae, that is endemic to Hawaii. It can be found in dry, coastal mesic, and mixed mesic forests at elevations of 240–920 m (790–3,020 ft) on the islands of Oʻahu (Waiʻanae Range) and Hawaiʻi (slopes of Kohala, Hualālai, and Mauna Loa). There is also one individual remaining on Maui. Associated plants include alaheʻe (Psydrax odorata) and ʻohe kukuluāeʻo (
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