Home > Elapidae

The Elapidae family of venomous snakes includes the cobras, mambas, kraits, sea snakes and coral snakes, as well as all the venomous snakes of Australia ( taipanTaipan : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Elapidae Oxyuranus scutellatus Binomial name Oxyuranus scutellatus Taipans are large (up to 3 metres in length), fast, highly venomous Australian snakes, believed to have the most toxic venom of any spes, brown snake s, death adderThe death adders are a group of three species of snakes native to the Australian continent. They are some of the most dangerous snakes in the world. Appearance Death adders are very viperlike in appearance, having triangular shaped heads and subocular scas, etc). The Elapids have hollow fangThe Fang are a west African people. They are the majority ethnic group in Equatorial Guinea and one of the major groups in Gabon (particularly in the north), with smaller numbers in southern Cameroon. Fang is also the name of their Bantu language. The Fans located at the front of the mouth, but these fangs cannot be erected like those of the true viperAdenorhinos Atheris Azemiops Bitis Cerastes Daboia Echis Eristicophis Macrovipera Montatheris Proatheris Pseudocerastes Vipera This page is about Viper snakes. For the Dodge automobile called Viper see Dodge Viper. For the Hentai video game series, see Vis belonging to the ViperidaeCrotalinae (Pit Vipers) Viperinae (Vipers) The Viperidae family is made up of two subfamilies: :#Crotalinae ( Pit Vipers) :#Viperinae ( Vipers) Snakes. family. Instead, Elapids must actually bite their prey instead of stabbing at it like a true viper.

Note: some authors place the sea snakes in a separate family, Hydrophiidae.

The type genus was originally called Elaps, but it was moved to another family. When this happens in botanyBotany is the scientific study of plants. As a branch of biology, it is also sometimes referred to as plant science(s or plant biology . Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study the growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, dis, the family is renamed, but here, the genus was renamed Homoroselaps. It was later moved back to Elapidae, but not to the subfamily Elapinae.