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Genus
Grayia (Equatorial African Water Snakes) |
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Family
Elapidae [part 1: terrestrial species] (Cobras, Mambas, etc.) |  |  |
Genus
Naja (Typical Cobras) |
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Naja nigricollis
Black-necked Spitting Cobra | 
Golay, Smith, Broadley, Dixon, McCarthy, Rage, Schatti & Toriba 1993
Spawls & Branch 1995
Spawls, Howell, Drewes & Ashe 2002
Spawls, Howell, Hinkel & Menegon 2018
Wallach, Williams & Boundy 2014
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Naja subfulva
Brown Forest Cobra | 
David & Ineich 1999 [as N. melanoleuca]
Spawls & Branch 1995 [as N. melanoleuca]
Spawls, Howell, Drewes & Ashe 2002 [as N. melanoleuca]
Spawls, Howell, Hinkel & Menegon 2018 [as N. melanoleuca]
Wuster, Chirio, Trape, Ineich, Jackson, Greenbaum, Barron, Kusamba, Nagy, Storey, Hall, Wuster, Barlow & Broadley 2018
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Atractaspis irregularis
Variable Stiletto Snake | 
Broadley & Howell 1991
David & Ineich 1999
Golay, Smith, Broadley, Dixon, McCarthy, Rage, Schatti & Toriba 1993
Pitman 1974
Spawls & Branch 1995
Spawls, Howell, Drewes & Ashe 2002
Spawls, Howell, Hinkel & Menegon 2018
Wallach, Williams & Boundy 2014
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Genus
Boaedon (Afro-Arabian House Snakes) |
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Genus
Buhoma (African Forest Snakes) |
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Limaformosa chanleri
Unicolor File Snake | 
Broadley & Howell 1991 [as unicolor]
Broadley, Tolley, Conradie, Wishart, Trape, Burger, Kusamba, Zassi-Boulou & Greenbaum 2018
Derleyn 1978 [as Mehelya capensis unicolor]
Lanza & Broadley 2014
Spawls, Howell, Drewes & Ashe 2002 [as unicolor]
Spawls, Howell, Hinkel & Menegon 2018
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Genus
Mehelya (Greater File Snakes) |
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Polemon (African Snake Eaters) |
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Genus
Psammophis (Old World Sand Snakes and Grass Snakes) |
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Genus
Python (Typical Pythons) |
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Letheobia (African Gracile Blind Snakes) |
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Atheris (African Bush Vipers) |
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Bitis (African Adders) |
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