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Elapsoidea

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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.

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

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).