Elapsoidea

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

Species[]

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

Boettger, 1895 – Boulenger's garter snake^[2] – Botswana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Jakobsen, 1997 – Broadley's garter snake^[2] – Somalia
Lanza, 1979 – Somali garter snake – Somalia
Bocage, 1866 – Günther's garter snake^[2] – Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe
(F. Werner, 1919) – Werner's garter snake^[2] – Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda
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
Bocage, 1882 – Angolan garter snake – throughout central Africa
Elapsoidea sundevallii (A. Smith, 1848) – Sundevall's garter snake^[2] – Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Mané, 1999 – Senegal garter snake – Senegal

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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