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 |
|---|---|---|
| African CobraNaja pallida Boulenger, 1896 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| São Tomé cobraNaja peroescobari Ceríaco, Marques, Schmitz & Bauer, 2017 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Philippine CobraNaja philippinensis Taylor, 1922 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Andaman CobraNaja sagittifera Wall, 1913 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Peters' CobraNaja samarensis Peters, 1861 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| West African banded cobraNaja savannula Broadley, Trape, Chirio & Wüster, 2018 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| West-African CobraNaja senegalensis Trape, Chirio & Wüster, 2009 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Indo-Chinese Spitting CobraNaja siamensis Laurenti, 1768 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Indonesian CobraNaja sputatrix Boie, 1827 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Equatorial Spitting cobraNaja sumatrana Müller, 1887 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black-naped Burrowing SnakeNarophis bimaculatus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black-striped Burrowing SnakeNeelaps calonotos (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mainland Tiger SnakeNotechis scutatus (Peters, 1861) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Fiji CobraOgmodon vitianus Peters, 1864 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Western Ghats king cobraOphiophagus kaalinga Gowri Shankar, Das & Ganesh, 2024 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Luzon king cobraOphiophagus salvatana Gowri Shankar, Das & Wüster, 2024 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Fierce SnakeOxyuranus microlepidotus (Mccoy, 1879) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Oxyuranus scutellatus (Peters, 1867) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Central Ranges TaipanOxyuranus temporalis Doughty, Maryan, Donnellan & Hutchinson, 2007 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arafura smooth or northern mangrove seasnakeParahydrophis mertoni (Roux, 1910) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lake Cronin SnakeParoplocephalus atriceps (Storr, 1980) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| King brown snakePseudechis australis (Gray, 1842) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Butler's SnakePseudechis butleri Smith, 1982 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Collett's SnakePseudechis colletti Boulenger, 1902 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blue-bellied Black SnakePseudechis guttatus de Vis, 1905 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| False King Brown SnakePseudechis pailsei (Hoser, 1998) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Papuan blacksnakePseudechis papuanus Peters & Doria, 1878 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Australian black snakePseudechis porphyriacus (Shaw, 1794) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pseudechis rossignolii (Hoser, 2000) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pseudechis weigeli (Wells & Wellington, 1987) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| African Tree CobraPseudohaje goldii (Boulenger, 1895) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black Tree CobraPseudohaje nigra Günther, 1858 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| DugitePseudonaja affinis Günther, 1872 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pseudonaja aspidorhyncha (Mccoy, 1879) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Speckled Brown SnakePseudonaja guttata (Parker, 1926) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Peninsula Brown SnakePseudonaja inframacula (Waite, 1925) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ingram's Brown SnakePseudonaja ingrami (Boulenger, 1908) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| GwardarPseudonaja mengdeni Wells & Wellington, 1985 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ringed Brown SnakePseudonaja modesta (Günther, 1872) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| GwardarPseudonaja nuchalis Günther, 1858 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eastern brown snakePseudonaja textilis (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Muller's SnakeRhinoplocephalus bicolor Müller, 1885 | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Solomons coral snakeSalomonelaps par (Boulenger, 1884) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desert Banded SnakeSimoselaps bertholdi (Jan, 1859) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dampierland Burrowing SnakeSimoselaps minimus (Worrell, 1960) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| MacClelland’s Coral SnakeSinomicrurus annularis (Günther, 1864) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Oriental Coral SnakeSinomicrurus sauteri (Steindachner, 1913) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Swinhoe's temperate Asian coralsnakeSinomicrurus swinhoei (Van Denburgh, 1912) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rosen's SnakeSuta fasciata (Rosén, 1905) | ElapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Little Whip SnakeSuta flagellum (Mccoy, 1878) | 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.