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Monocellate Cobra
Naja kaouthia Lesson, 1831
Naja kaouthia (monocled cobra) is an Asian venomous cobra distinguished by its characteristic O-shaped hood pattern.
Indochinese Spitting Cobra
Naja siamensis Laurenti, 1768
Naja siamensis is a slender spitting cobra species native to Southeast Asia with variable body colouration.
Equatorial Spitting Cobra
Naja sumatrana Müller, 1887
Naja sumatrana is a medium Southeast Asian cobra that can spit venom when threatened, with two geographically based color phases.
Brown Forest Cobra
Naja subfulva Laurent, 1955
Naja subfulva is an African cobra species with variable dark patterning found across East and Central Africa.
Texas Coralsnake
Micrurus tener Baird & Girard, 1853
Micrurus tener, the Texas coral snake, is a venomous coral snake with distinct ringed coloration found from southern US to central Mexico.
Aquatic Coralsnake
Micrurus surinamensis (Cuvier, 1816)
Micrurus surinamensis is a robust, mostly aquatic nocturnal coral snake endemic to northern South America.
Central American Coralsnake
Micrurus nigrocinctus (Girard, 1854)
Micrurus nigrocinctus, the Central American coral snake, is an oviparous elapid found from southern Mexico to northwestern Colombia.
Costa Rican Coralsnake
Micrurus mosquitensis Schmidt, 1933
Micrurus mosquitensis, the mosquito coral snake, is an elapid snake found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
Redtail Coralsnake
Micrurus mipartitus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)
Micrurus mipartitus, the red-tailed coral snake, is an elapid species native to parts of Central and northern South America with highly neurotoxic venom.
Hemprich's Coralsnake
Micrurus hemprichii (Jan, 1858)
Micrurus hemprichii, or Hemprich's coral snake, is a venomous South American elapid that lives in lowland forest leaf litter.
Transandean Capuchin Coralsnake
Micrurus dumerilii Jan, 1858
Micrurus dumerilii (Capuchin coral snake) is an elapid snake found in northwestern South America and Panama.
West Mexican Coralsnake
Micrurus distans Kennicott, 1860
Micrurus distans, the clear-banded or West Mexican coral snake, is an elapid snake found in Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela.
Pygmy Coralsnake
Micrurus dissoleucus Cope, 1860
Pygmy coral snake (Micrurus dissoleucus) is an elapid snake found in Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela.
Variable Coralsnake
Micrurus diastema (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)
Micrurus diastema, the variable coral snake, is a venomous elapid endemic to Mexico and northern Central America.
Brown's Coralsnake
Micrurus browni Schmidt & Smith, 1943
Micrurus browni, or Brown's coral snake, is a three-colored elapid found in parts of Mexico and Guatemala.
Allen's Coralsnake
Micrurus alleni Schmidt, 1936
Micrurus alleni (Allen's/arrow-headed coral snake) is an elapid snake found in four Central American countries.
Eastern Coralsnake
Micrurus fulvius (Linnaeus, 1766)
Micrurus fulvius, the eastern coral snake, is a venomous elapid found in the southeastern U.S., detailed here for size, range, habitat, and reproduction.
Painted Coralsnake
Micrurus corallinus (Merrem, 1820)
Micrurus corallinus, the painted coral snake, is a nocturnal venomous coral snake native to parts of South America.
Caatinga Coralsnake
Micrurus ibiboboca (Merrem, 1820)
Micrurus ibiboboca, the caatinga coral snake, is an elapid found in eastern Brazil, often confused with Micrurus lemniscatus.
Argentinian Coralsnake
Micrurus pyrrhocryptus (Cope, 1862)
Micrurus pyrrhocryptus (Argentinian coral snake) is an elapid coral snake found in South America's Dry Chaco.
Black-necked Amazonian Coralsnake
Micrurus obscurus (Jan, 1872)
Micrurus obscurus is an elapid snake species found across multiple countries in northwestern South America.
Ribbon Coralsnake
Micrurus lemniscatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Micrurus lemniscatus is a brightly colored oviparous snake widespread across multiple regions of South America.
Sonoran Coralsnake
Micruroides euryxanthus (Kennicott, 1860)
Micruroides euryxanthus is a small New World coral snake found in arid regions of the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.
Rinkhals
Hemachatus haemachatus Bonnaterre, 1790
Hemachatus haemachatus, the rinkhals, is an ovoviviparous African elapid distinguished from true Naja cobras by several traits.
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