A Elapidae occurs as family of venomous snakes that includes the cobras, mambas, kraits, sea snakes and coral snakes, when well as all the venomous snakes of Australia like taipans, brown snakes or death adders. Elapid snake come related to the colubrids. A elapid snake keep close at hand hollow fangs located at a front of the mouth, however these fangs just can not become erected rather victims of the confessedly vipers belonging to the Viperidae family. Instead, elapid snake must actually bite their prey instead of stabbing at it rather the admittedly viper.

A type genus was originally called Elaps, however it was late moved to an additional personal. Contrarily to what commonly happens around botany, a personal is non renamed, however the flushed genus (into Homoroselaps). It was however late stirred back to the Elapidae, however there are no hanker to subfamily Elapinae.

A virtually all venomous snake olympic games is the Fierce Snake. A largest is the king cobra, and reaches as much as 6m.

Taxonomic note
Sea snakes include for instance a genera Hydrophis, Pelamis or Laticauda. A bit of authors, handle a children as a subpersonal Hydrophiinae or even as a different family, the Hydrophiidae.