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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Reptiles
  5. Lizards and Snakes
  6. Snakes
  7. Elapid Snakes

family

Elapid Snakes

Elapidae

Includes
4 native 2 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Coral Snakes 2 native
  • Sonoran Coralsnakes 1 native
  • Australian Elapids (Inc. Sea Snakes) 1 native
  • Kraits
  • Cobras
  • Sea Kraits
  • African Garter Snakes
  • King Cobras
  • Mambas
  • Shield-nosed Cobras

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native elapid snakes All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Texas Coralsnake Micrurus tener 4,908 observations
  • Eastern Coralsnake Micrurus fulvius 1,517 observations
  • Yellow-bellied Sea Snake Hydrophis platurus 974 observations
  • Sonoran Coralsnake Micruroides euryxanthus 747 observations

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