REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS OF THE WORLD - ELAPIDS

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A Selection of

ELAPIDS OF THE WORLD

Note that True Sea Snakes and Sea Kraits are now classed as Elapids


COMMON NAME

SCIENTIFIC NAME

DISTRIBUTION

Papuan Death Adder, Top End Death Adder or Rough-scaled Death Adder

Acanthophis rugosus

New Guinea, northern Australia

Eastern Green Mamba

Dendroaspis angusticeps

Coastal regions of southern Africa and East Africa

Black Mamba

Dendroaspis polylepis

Sub-Saharan Africa

Western Green Mamba

Dendroaspis viridis

West Africa

Common Yellow-bellied Sea Snake

Hydrophis (was Pelamis) platurus platurus

Tropical oceanic waters around the world except for the Atlantic Ocean

Wide-faced or Yellow Lipped Sea Krait

Laticauda colubrina

India and Sri Lanka to Islands of the SW Pacific - Occasionally strays into Australian waters

Black-neck Coral Snake, Black-neck Amazonian Coral Snake or Bolivian Coral Snake

Micrurus obscurus is considered as a subspecies of M. lemniscatus by some authors

S/E Colombia, NW Brazil (Upper Amazon region), N Bolivia, E Ecuador, E Peru

Monocled Cobra

Naja kaouthia

Bangladesh, Myanmar, Cambodia, NE India, Bhutan, Laos, Northern Malaysia,
South China, Thailand, Vietnam

Central African Forest Cobra

Naja melanoleuca

Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, N Angola, Rwanda, Republic of South Sudan

Spectacled Cobra or Indian Cobra

Naja naja

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bhutan

King Cobras
(4 species as of 2024)

Ophiophagus bungarus
Ophiophagus hannah
Ophiophagus kaalinga
Ophiophagus salvatana

South and Southeast Asia

Coastal Taipan

Oxyuranus scutellatus

Australia (Qld) , New Guinea



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