Elapidae

Aloufi, Abdulhadi A., Amr, Zuhair S., Abu Baker, Mohammad A. & Hamidan, Nashat, 2019, Diversity and conservation of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine reptiles and amphibians in Saudi Arabia, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 204) 13 (2), pp. 181-202 : 194-195

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13239045

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED6A4E-FFC7-0D44-FCC4-F894734DFEAA

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Felipe

scientific name

Elapidae
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Family Elapidae View in CoL ( Fig. 10E and F View Fig )

Three species of terrestrial elapids belonging to two genera ( Naja and Walterinnesia ) are known in Saudi Arabia. Nilson and Rastegar-Pouyani (2007) considered the eastern population of Walterinnesia as Walterinnesia morgani and the western population as Walterinnesia aegyptia . Naja arabica is distributed to the west of the country.

Nine species of marine snakes belonging to the genus Hydrophis have been reported from the waters of the Arabian Gulf. The nomenclature of sea snakes in Table 1 follow Rezaie-Atagholipour et al. (2016).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Squamata

Family

Elapidae

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