Elapidae

Naja siamensis Laurenti, 1768

Naja siamensis is a slender spitting cobra species native to Southeast Asia with variable body colouration.

Naja sumatrana Müller, 1887

Naja sumatrana is a medium Southeast Asian cobra that can spit venom when threatened, with two geographically based color phases.

Naja subfulva Laurent, 1955

Naja subfulva is an African cobra species with variable dark patterning found across East and Central Africa.

Micrurus tener Baird & Girard, 1853

Micrurus tener, the Texas coral snake, is a venomous coral snake with distinct ringed coloration found from southern US to central Mexico.

Micrurus surinamensis (Cuvier, 1816)

Micrurus surinamensis is a robust, mostly aquatic nocturnal coral snake endemic to northern South America.

Micrurus nigrocinctus (Girard, 1854)

Micrurus nigrocinctus, the Central American coral snake, is an oviparous elapid found from southern Mexico to northwestern Colombia.

Micrurus mosquitensis Schmidt, 1933

Micrurus mosquitensis, the mosquito coral snake, is an elapid snake found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

Micrurus mipartitus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)

Micrurus mipartitus, the red-tailed coral snake, is an elapid species native to parts of Central and northern South America with highly neurotoxic venom.

Micrurus hemprichii (Jan, 1858)

Micrurus hemprichii, or Hemprich's coral snake, is a venomous South American elapid that lives in lowland forest leaf litter.

Micrurus dumerilii Jan, 1858

Micrurus dumerilii (Capuchin coral snake) is an elapid snake found in northwestern South America and Panama.

Micrurus distans Kennicott, 1860

Micrurus distans, the clear-banded or West Mexican coral snake, is an elapid snake found in Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Micrurus dissoleucus Cope, 1860

Pygmy coral snake (Micrurus dissoleucus) is an elapid snake found in Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Micrurus diastema (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)

Micrurus diastema, the variable coral snake, is a venomous elapid endemic to Mexico and northern Central America.

Micrurus browni Schmidt & Smith, 1943

Micrurus browni, or Brown's coral snake, is a three-colored elapid found in parts of Mexico and Guatemala.

Micrurus alleni Schmidt, 1936

Micrurus alleni (Allen's/arrow-headed coral snake) is an elapid snake found in four Central American countries.

Micrurus fulvius (Linnaeus, 1766)

Micrurus fulvius, the eastern coral snake, is a venomous elapid found in the southeastern U.S., detailed here for size, range, habitat, and reproduction.

Micrurus corallinus (Merrem, 1820)

Micrurus corallinus, the painted coral snake, is a nocturnal venomous coral snake native to parts of South America.

Micrurus ibiboboca (Merrem, 1820)

Micrurus ibiboboca, the caatinga coral snake, is an elapid found in eastern Brazil, often confused with Micrurus lemniscatus.

Micrurus pyrrhocryptus (Cope, 1862)

Micrurus pyrrhocryptus (Argentinian coral snake) is an elapid coral snake found in South America's Dry Chaco.

Micrurus obscurus (Jan, 1872)

Micrurus obscurus is an elapid snake species found across multiple countries in northwestern South America.

Micrurus lemniscatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Micrurus lemniscatus is a brightly colored oviparous snake widespread across multiple regions of South America.

Micruroides euryxanthus (Kennicott, 1860)

Micruroides euryxanthus is a small New World coral snake found in arid regions of the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.

Hemachatus haemachatus Bonnaterre, 1790

Hemachatus haemachatus, the rinkhals, is an ovoviviparous African elapid distinguished from true Naja cobras by several traits.

Sinomicrurus sauteri (Steindachner, 1913)

Sinomicrurus sauteri is a striped oviparous snake found in lower to middle altitude mountain forests and meadows.