The Elapidae is a family of venomous snakes found in tropical and subtropical regions around the world, terrestrially in Asia, Australia, Africa, North America and South America and aquatically in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Elapid snakes exist in a wide range of sizes, from 18 cm species of Drysdalia to the 5.6 m King Cobra. They are characterized by hollow, fixed fangs through which they inject venom. A detailed description of this family can be found here.
Elapidae (taxid:8602)
Venom protein entries in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot
(all links/actions below point to uniprot.org website)1030 entries grouped by species
10 entries
Acanthophis antarcticus (Common death adder)
1 entry
Acanthophis rugosus (Irian Jayan death adder)
2 entries
Acanthophis sp. (strain Seram) (Seram death adder)
5 entries
Aspidelaps scutatus (Shield-nose snake)
3 entries
Austrelaps labialis (Pygmy copperhead) (Denisonia superba)
40 entries
Austrelaps superbus (Lowland copperhead snake) (Hoplocephalus superbus)
7 entries
Bungarus caeruleus (Indian krait)
38 entries
Bungarus candidus (Malayan krait)
31 entries
Bungarus fasciatus (Banded krait) (Pseudoboa fasciata)
8 entries
Bungarus flaviceps flaviceps (Red-headed krait)
53 entries
Bungarus multicinctus (Many-banded krait)
4 entries
Calliophis bivirgatus (Blue Malaysian coral snake) (Maticora bivirgata)
15 entries
Cryptophis nigrescens (Eastern small-eyed snake) (Rhinoplocephalus nigrescens)
20 entries
Demansia vestigiata (Lesser black whip snake) (Demansia atra)
36 entries
Dendroaspis angusticeps (Eastern green mamba) (Naja angusticeps)
1 entry
Dendroaspis jamesoni jamesoni (Jameson's mamba)
10 entries
Dendroaspis jamesoni kaimosae (Eastern Jameson's mamba)
20 entries
Dendroaspis polylepis polylepis (Black mamba)
8 entries
Dendroaspis viridis (Western green mamba)
22 entries
Drysdalia coronoides (White-lipped snake) (Hoplocephalus coronoides)
16 entries
Hemachatus haemachatus (Rinkhals) (Sepedon haemachatus)
13 entries
Hoplocephalus stephensii (Stephens' banded snake)
14 entries
Laticauda colubrina (Yellow-lipped sea krait) (Banded sea krait)
3 entries
Laticauda crockeri (Crocker's sea snake) (Rennell Island sea krait)
9 entries
Laticauda laticaudata (Blue-ringed sea krait) (Blue-lipped sea krait)
16 entries
Laticauda semifasciata (Black-banded sea krait) (Pseudolaticauda semifasciata)
2 entries
Micropechis ikaheca (New Guinean small-eyed snake)
15 entries
Micrurus altirostris (Uruguayan coral snake) (Elaps altirostris)
1 entry
Micrurus clarki (Clark's coral snake)
10 entries
Micrurus corallinus (Brazilian coral snake)
2 entries
Micrurus dumerilii (Coral snake)
6 entries
Micrurus frontalis (Coral snake)
4 entries
Micrurus fulvius (Eastern coral snake) (Coluber fulvius)
2 entries
Micrurus laticollaris (Balsas coral snake)
2 entries
Micrurus lemniscatus (South American coral snake)
9 entries
Micrurus mipartitus (Red-tailed coral snake)
9 entries
Micrurus nigrocinctus (Central American coral snake) (Gargantilla)
12 entries
Micrurus pyrrhocryptus (Coral snake)
6 entries
Micrurus surinamensis (Surinam coral snake)
1 entry
Micrurus tener microgalbineus (Spotted coral snake) (Micrurus fulvius microgalbineus)
2 entries
Micrurus tener tener (Texas coral snake)
1 entry
Micrurus tschudii (Desert coral snake)
1 entry
Naja anchietae (Anchieta's cobra) (Naja haje anchietae)
2 entries
Naja annulata annulata (Banded water cobra) (Boulengerina annulata annulata)
20 entries
Naja annulifera (Banded Egyptian cobra) (Naja haje annulifera)
66 entries
Naja atra (Chinese cobra)
1 entry
Naja christyi (Christy's water cobra) (Boulengerina christyi)
11 entries
Naja haje haje (Egyptian cobra)
34 entries
Naja kaouthia (Monocled cobra) (Naja siamensis)
13 entries
Naja melanoleuca (Forest cobra) (Black-lipped cobra)
12 entries
Naja mossambica (Mozambique spitting cobra)
31 entries
Naja naja (Indian cobra)
5 entries
Naja nigricollis (Black-necked spitting cobra)
8 entries
Naja nivea (Cape cobra) (Coluber niveus)
10 entries
Naja oxiana (Central Asian cobra) (Oxus cobra)
3 entries
Naja pallida (Red spitting cobra)
1 entry
Naja philippinensis (Philippine cobra)
7 entries
Naja sagittifera (Andaman cobra)
1 entry
Naja samarensis (Peters' cobra)
31 entries
Naja sputatrix (Malayan spitting cobra) (Naja naja sputatrix)
1 entry
Naja sumatrana (Equatorial spitting cobra) (Naja tripudians var. sumatrana)
1 entry
Notechis scutatus niger (Peninsula tiger snake) (Notechis ater niger)
27 entries
Notechis scutatus scutatus (Mainland tiger snake) (Common tiger snake)
59 entries
Ophiophagus hannah (King cobra) (Naja hannah)
31 entries
Oxyuranus microlepidotus (Inland taipan) (Diemenia microlepidota)
3 entries
Oxyuranus scutellatus (Coastal taipan)
7 entries
Oxyuranus scutellatus canni (Papuan taipan)
27 entries
Oxyuranus scutellatus scutellatus (Australian taipan) (Coastal taipan)
31 entries
Pseudechis australis (Mulga snake) (King brown snake)
1 entry
Pseudechis colletti (Collett's snake)
1 entry
Pseudechis guttatus (Spotted black snake) (Pseudechis mortonensis)
1 entry
Pseudechis papuanus (Papuan black snake)
19 entries
Pseudechis porphyriacus (Red-bellied black snake)
3 entries
Pseudechis rossignolii (Papuan pigmy mulga snake)
30 entries
Pseudonaja textilis (Eastern brown snake)
7 entries
Pseudonaja textilis textilis (Eastern brown snake)
24 entries
Tropidechis carinatus (Australian rough-scaled snake)
11 entries