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Find terrestrial venomous snake by morphology (regional)

Select the snake family or subfamily and your current world region. If you don't know the family/subfamily, go to the "Find terrestrial snake by morphology (general)" page and follow the instructions.

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Elapids Vipers Pit Vipers

Morphological identification key

Elapidae
    
                 

Are the dorsal scales on the posterior part of the body and on the tail keeled?

  
yes
  Walterinnesia aegyptia
no
               
                 

Are the scales along the spine enlarged?

 yes   Bungarus caeruleus (found in eastern Afghanistan and south eastern Iran only)

 no

               
                 

How many subcaudal scales (underneath the tail, from behind the anal plate A, which covers the cloaca, to the tip of the tail) are present? Scales divided down the middle count as a single scale!

40 or more
 

Naja sp. (African Cobras)

Naja sp. (Asiatic Cobras)

    
13–19
  Elapsoidea sundevalli