# Elapidae
Elapidae, Squamata sınıfına bağlı zehirli bir yılan familyasıdır. Hint Okyanusu ve Pasifik de dahil olmak üzere dünyanın tropik ve tropik altı bölgelerinde bulunur.


## Etimoloji.
"Elapid" Eski Yunanca: ἔλλοψ: éllops ("deniz balığı") sözcüğünden türetilmiştir.


## Taksonomi.
Elapidae familyasına bağlı cinsler (2024):
  - "Acanthophis"
  - "Aipysurus"
  - "Antaioserpens"
  - "Aspidelaps"
  - "Aspidoclonion"
  - "Aspidomorphus"
  - "Austrelaps"
  - "Brachyurophis"
  - "Bungarus"
  - "Cacophis"
  - "Calliophis"
  - "Cannia"
  - "Cryptophis"
  - "Demansia"
  - "Dendroaspis"
  - "Denisonia"
  - "Drysdalia"
  - "Echiopsis"
  - "Elapognathus"
  - "Elapsoidea"
  - "Emydocephalus"
  - "Ephalophis"
  - "Furina"
  - "Hemachatus"
  - "Hemiaspis"
  - "Hemibungarus"
  - "Hoplocephalus"
  - "Hydrelaps"
  - "Hydrophis"
  - "Incongruelaps" ✝
  - "Laticauda"
  - "Loveridgelaps"
  - "Megaerophis"
  - "Microcephalophis"
  - "Micropechis"
  - "Micruroides"
  - "Micrurus"
  - "Naja"
  - "Notechis"
  - "Notopseudonaja"
  - "Ogmodon"
  - "Ophiophagus"
  - "Oxyuranus"
  - "Parahydrophis"
  - "Parapistocalamus"
  - "Paroplocephalus"
  - "Polyodontognathus"
  - "Pseudechis"
  - "Pseudohaje"
  - "Pseudonaja"
  - "Rhinoplocephalus"
  - "Salomonelaps"
  - "Simoselaps"
  - "Sinomicrurus"
  - "Suta"
  - "Toxicocalamus"
  - "Tropidechis"
  - "Unechis"
  - "Vermicella"
  - "Walterinnesia"


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