THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE
A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Elapidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Yellow-Faced Whip SnakeDemansia reticulata (Gray, 1842) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Demansia rimicola Scanlon, 2007 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rufous WhipsnakeDemansia rufescens Storr, 1978 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Demansia shinei Shea, 2007 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Grey WhipsnakeDemansia simplex Storr, 1978 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Collared Whip SnakeDemansia torquata (Günther, 1862) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black whip snakeDemansia vestigiata (de Vis, 1884) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Green MambaDendroaspis angusticeps (Smith, 1849) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Jameson’s (Green) MambaDendroaspis jamesoni (Traill, 1843) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black MambaDendroaspis polylepis Günther, 1864 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Western Green MambaDendroaspis viridis (Hallowell, 1844) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| De Vis Banded SnakeDenisonia devisi (Waite & Longman, 1920) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ornamental SnakeDenisonia maculata (Steindachner, 1867) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| White-lipped SnakeDrysdalia coronoides (Günther, 1858) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Masters' SnakeDrysdalia mastersii (Krefft, 1866) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mustard-bellied SnakeDrysdalia rhodogaster (Jan, 1873) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| BardickEchiopsis curta (Schlegel, 1837) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Crowned SnakeElapognathus coronatus (Schlegel, 1837) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Little Brown SnakeElapognathus minor (Günther, 1863) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Boulenger's Garter SnakeElapsoidea boulengeri Boettger, 1895 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Elapsoidea broadleyi Jakobsen, 1997 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Somali Garter SnakeElapsoidea chelazziorum Lanza, 1979 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Günther’s Garter SnakeElapsoidea guentherii Bocage, 1866 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Werner's Garter SnakeElapsoidea laticincta (Werner, 1919) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| East African Garter SnakeElapsoidea loveridgei Parker, 1949 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black Garter SnakeElapsoidea nigra Günther, 1888 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Angolan Garter SnakeElapsoidea semiannulata Bocage, 1882 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Elapsoidea sundevallii Smith, 1848 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Elapsoidea trapei Mané, 1999 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Egg-eating Sea SnakeEmydocephalus annulatus Krefft, 1869 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Turtlehead Sea SnakeEmydocephalus ijimae Stejneger, 1898 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Red-naped SnakeFurina diadema (Schlegel, 1837) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Orange-naped SnakeFurina ornata (Gray, 1842) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Brown-headed or grey-naped snakeFurina tristis (Günther, 1858) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ring-necked Spitting CobraHemachatus haemachatus (Bonnaterre, 1790) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Nyanga rinkhalsHemachatus nyangensis Reissig, Major, Renk, Barlow, Paijmans, Morris, Hofreiter, Broadley & Wüster, 2023 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Grey SnakeHemiaspis damelii (Günther, 1876) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black-bellied Swamp SnakeHemiaspis signata (Jan, 1859) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Barred Coral SnakeHemibungarus calligaster (Wiegmann, 1835) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| [Double-barred] Philippine False Coral Snake; Barred Coral SnakeHemibungarus gemianulis Peters, 1872 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pale-headed SnakeHoplocephalus bitorquatus (Jan, 1859) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Broad-headed SnakeHoplocephalus bungaroides (Schlegel, 1837) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Stephens's Banded SnakeHoplocephalus stephensii Krefft, 1869 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Port Darwin seasnakeHydrelaps darwiniensis Boulenger, 1896 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Annandale’s sea snakeHydrophis annandalei (Laidlaw, 1901) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Faint-banded SeasnakeHydrophis belcheri (Gray, 1849) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Peters' Sea SnakeHydrophis bituberculatus Peters, 1873 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hydrophis brookii Günther, 1872 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dwarf SeasnakeHydrophis caerulescens (Shaw, 1802) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Slender-necked SeasnakeHydrophis coggeri (Kharin, 1984) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.