Elapsoidea Trapei

''Elapsoidea'' is a genus of venomous snakes, commonly known as African garter snakes, in the Family (biology), family Elapidae. Despite their common names, they are unrelated to the harmless North American garter snakes of the genus ''Thamnophis''.

Species

The following ten species are recognized as being valid.
*''Elapsoidea boulengeri'' Oskar Boettger, Boettger, 1895 – George Albert Boulenger, Boulenger's garter snakespecies:Bo Beolens, Beolens, Bo; species:Michael Watkins, Watkins, Michael; species:Michael Grayson , Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii +296 pp. . (''Elapsoidea boulengeri'', p. 34; ''E. broadleyi'', p. 39; ''E. guentherii'', p. 110; ''E. laticincta'', p. 282; ''E. loveridgei'', p. 161; ''E. sundevallii'', p. 258). – Botswana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
*''Elapsoidea broadleyi'' species:Andy Jakobsen, Jakobsen, 1997 – Donald George Broadley, Broadley's garter snake – Somalia
*''Elapsoidea chelazziorum'' :fr:Benedetto Lanza, Lanza, 1979 – Somali garter snake – Somalia
*''Elapsoidea guentherii'' José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage, Bocage, 1866 – Albert Günther, Günther's garter snake – Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe
*''Elapsoidea laticincta'' (Franz Werner, F. Werner, 1919) – Franz Werner, Werner's garter snake – Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda
*''Elapsoidea loveridgei'' Hampton Wildman Parker, Parker, 1949 – Arthur Loveridge, Loveridge's garter snake – Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
*''Elapsoidea nigra'' Albert Günther, Günther, 1888 – black garter snake – Tanzania
*''Elapsoidea semiannulata'' Bocage, 1882 – Angolan garter snake – throughout central Africa
*''Elapsoidea sundevallii'' (Andrew Smith (zoologist), A. Smith, 1848) – Carl Jakob Sundevall, Sundevall's garter snake – Botswana, Eswatini, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
*''Elapsoidea trapei'' species:Youssouph Mané, Mané, 1999 – Senegal garter snake – Senegal, Mauritania

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

References

Further reading

*José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage, 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 Language, French).
*William Roy Branch, 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. . (Genus ''Elapsoidea'', p. 104).

Elapsoidea,
Snake genera
Snakes of Africa,
Reptiles of Sub-Saharan Africa,
Taxa named by José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage

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