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Definition of Elaps

Elaps
Elaps E"laps, n. [NL., of uncertain origin.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.

Meaning of Elaps from wikipedia

- (/əˈlæpədiː/, commonly known as elapids /ˈɛləpədz/, from Ancient Gr****: ἔλαψ élaps, variant of ἔλλοψ éllops "sea-fish") is a family of snakes characterized...
- snake, American cobra, candy-stick snake, common coral snake, coral adder, Elaps harlequin snake, Florida coral snake, harlequin coral snake, North American...
- Washington, District of Columbia: Smithsonian Institution. xvi + 172 pp. (Elaps tenere, new species, pp. 22–23). Brown BC, Smith HM (1942). "A New Subspecies...
- Synonyms Leptophis punctulatus Gray, 1827 Ahaetulla punctulatus Gray, 1827 Elaps lewisii Gray, 1841 Dendrophis (Ahetula) olivacea Gray, 1842 Dendrophis prasinus...
- Erpetogomphus elaps is "LC", least concern, with no immediate threat to the species' survival. The po****tion is stable. "Erpetogomphus elaps Report". Integrated...
- Bulletin. 127: 35–36. Beddome RH (1864). "Description of a New Species of Elaps from Malabar". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1864: 179. Boulenger GA (1890). The...
- specimen has found it to be more similar to the northern king cobra. Hamadryas elaps proposed by Albert Günther in 1858 were king cobra specimens from the Philippines...
- History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I–XXV. ("Elaps langsdorffii [sic]", p. 416). Freiberg MA (1982). Snakes of South America...
- Atractus elaps, the black ground snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species can be found in Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru...
- that of the nominate subspecies. Jameson's mamba was first described as Elaps jamesoni in 1843 by Thomas Traill, a Scottish doctor, zoologist and scholar...