Elapsoidea

Elapsoidea is a genus of venomous elapid snakes commonly known as African garter snakes. Despite the common name, they are unrelated to the harmless North American garter snake species.

Species[edit]

The following ten species are recognized as being valid.^[1]

Elapsoidea boulengeri Boettger, 1895 – Boulenger's garter snake^[2] – Botswana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Elapsoidea broadleyi Jakobsen, 1997 – Broadley's garter snake^[2] – Somalia
Elapsoidea chelazzii Lanza, 1979 – Somali garter snake – Somalia
Elapsoidea guentherii Bocage, 1866 – Günther's garter snake^[2] – Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Elapsoidea laticincta (F. Werner, 1919) – Werner's garter snake^[2] – Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda
Elapsoidea loveridgei Parker, 1949 – Loveridge's garter snake^[2] – Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
Elapsoidea nigra Günther, 1888 – black garter snake – Tanzania
Elapsoidea semiannulata Bocage, 1882 – Angolan garter snake – throughout central Africa
Elapsoidea sundevallii (A. Smith, 1848) – Sundevall's garter snake^[2] – Botswana, Eswatini, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Elapsoidea trapei Mané, 1999 – Senegal garter snake – Senegal, Mauritania

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Elapsoidea.

^ Genus Elapsoidea at The Reptile Database
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii +296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Elapsoidea boulengeri, p. 34; E. broadleyi, p. 39; E. guentherii, p. 110; E. laticincta, p. 282; E. loveridgei, p. 161; E. sundevallii, p. 258).

Bocage JVB (1866). "Reptiles nouveaux ou peu connus recueillis dans les possessions portugaises de l'Afrique occidentale, qui se trouvent au Muséum de Lisbonne ". Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas Physicas e Naturales, Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa 1: 57–78. (Elapsoidea, new genus, p. 70). (in French).
Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. ISBN 0-88359-042-5. (Genus Elapsoidea, p. 104).

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