Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Elapidae

Elapidae (cobras, coral snakes, and kraits) with Relationships

Synonyms: Hydrophidae; Hydrophiidae; Protropidonotus; Protropidonotus neglectus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Elapidae (Greek ἔλλοψ éllops, "sea-fish") are a family of venomous snakes found in tropical and subtropical regions around the world, terrestrially in Asia, Australia, Africa, North America, and South America, and aquatically in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
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Genus

Acanthophis (1)
Aipysurus (1)
Austrelaps (3)
Bungarus (Indian kraits) (3)
Cryptophis (2)
Demansia (4)
Dendroaspis (mambas) (2)
Drysdalia (1)
Echiopsis (1)
Elapognathus (1)
Elapsoidea (venomous garter snakes) (1)
Furina (1)
Hemachatus (spitting cobras) (1)
Hoplocephalus (2)
Hydrophis (8)
Laticauda (5)
Micruroides (western coral snakes) (1)
Micrurus (common coral snakes) (5)
Naja (cobras) (5)
Neelaps (1)
Notechis (1)
Ophiophagus (king cobra) (1)
Oxyuranus (2)
Pseudechis (3)
Pseudonaja (2)
Simoselaps (1)
Suta (7)
Tropidechis (1)

(...) = Species count

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0