Elapoidea

{{Short description|Superfamily of snakes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Indian Cobra.JPG

| image_caption = Indian cobra (Naja naja)

| taxon = Elapoidea

| authority = Boie, 1827

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision = * ?Buhoma

• Cyclocoridae
• Psammodynastidae
• Elapidae{{efn|The elapids in the past were considered to have two subfamilies–the Elapinae made of terrestrial species and Hydrophiinae made of the marine species.{{cite book |last1=Mattison |first1=C. |author1-link=species:Chris Mattison |year=2007 |title=The New Encyclopedia of Snakes |location=Princeton, New Jersey |publisher=Princeton University Press}} In 1997, Slowinski, Knight and Rooney found in their phylogenetic analysis using amino acid sequences from venom proteins, that the Australasian terrestrial species nested within the Hydrophiinae. This led to removing the Australasian terrestrial species and placing them in Hydrophiinae.{{cite journal|last1=Slowinski|first1=Joseph B.|author1-link=Joseph Bruno Slowinski|last2=Knight|first2=Alec|author2-link=species:R. Alec Knight|last3=Rooney|first3=Alejandro P.|title=Inferring Species Trees from Gene Trees: A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Elapidae (Serpentes) Based on the Amino Acid Sequences of Venom Proteins.|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|date=1997|volume=8|issue=3|pages=349–362|doi=10.1006/mpev.1997.0434|pmid=9417893|bibcode=1997MolPE...8..349S |citeseerx=10.1.1.324.3013}} This has been supported in subsequent recent genomic analyses, though these same studies also found the subfamily Elapinae to be paraphyletic in respect to the Hydrophiinae.{{cite journal |author1=Pyron, R. Alexander |author1-link=species:Robert Alexander Pyron |author2=Burbrink, Frank T. |author2-link=Frank T. Burbrink |author3=Wiens, John J. |author3-link=species:John Joseph Wiens |year=2013 |title=A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=13 |issue=1 |page=93 |doi=10.1186/1471-2148-13-93 |pmid=23627680 |pmc=3682911 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2013BMCEE..13...93P}}{{cite journal |author1=Lee, Michael S.Y. |author1-link=species:Michael S.Y. Lee |author2=Sanders, Kate L. |author2-link=Kate Sanders |author3=King, Benedict |author4=Palci, Alessandro |year=2016 |title=Diversification rates and phenotypic evolution in venomous snakes (Elapidae) |journal=Royal Society Open Science |volume=3 |issue=1 |page=1 |doi=10.1098/rsos.150277 |pmid=26909162 |pmc=4736917 |bibcode=2016RSOS....350277L}}{{cite journal|last1=Figueroa|first1=A.|author1-link=species:Alex Figueroa|last2=McKelvy|first2=A.D.|author2-link=species:Alexander D. McKelvy|last3=Grismer|first3=L.L.|author3-link=Larry Lee Grismer|last4=Bell|first4=C.D.|author4-link=species:Charles D. Bell|last5=Lailvaux|first5=S.P.|author5-link=species:Simon P. Lailvaux|title=A species-level phylogeny of extant snakes with description of a new colubrid subfamily and genus|journal=PLOS ONE|date=2016|volume=11|issue=9|pages=e0161070|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0161070|pmid=27603205|pmc=5014348|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1161070F|doi-access=free}} These studies have found coral snakes, cobras and mambas, kraits, and African gartersnakes forming successive outgroups to Hydrophiinae. Since clade names are available for these groups with the exception of the Elapsoidea, bringing back the subfamilies Calliophiinae, Micrurinae, Najinae, and Bungarinae is ideal.}}
• Micrelapidae
• Pseudoxyrhophiidae
• Psammophiidae
• Atractaspididae
• Pseudaspididae
• Prosymnidae
• Lamprophiidae

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The Elapoidea are a superfamily of snakes in the clade Colubroides, traditionally comprising the families Lamprophiidae and Elapidae. Advanced genomic sequence studies, however, have found lamprophiids to be paraphyletic in respect to elapids, and anywhere between four and nine families are now recognized.{{cite journal|last1=Weinell|first1=J.L.|author1-link=Jeffrey L. Weinell|last2=Brown|first2=R.M.|author2-link=Rafe Marion Brown|title=Discovery of an old, archipelago-wide, endemic radiation of Philippine snakes|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|date=2017|volume=119|pages=144–150|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321206578|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2017.11.004|pmid=29162550|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal |last1=Das |first1=Sunandan |author1-link=species:Sunandan Das |last2=Greenbaum |first2=Eli |author2-link=species:Eli Greenbaum |last3=Meiri |first3=Shai |author3-link=species:Shai Meiri |last4=Bauer |first4=Aaron M. |author4-link=Aaron Matthew Bauer |last5=Burbrink |first5=Frank T. |last6=Raxworthy |first6=Christopher J. |author6-link=species:Christopher John Raxworthy |last7=Weinell |first7=Jeffrey L. |last8=Brown |first8=Rafe M. |last9=Brecko |first9=Jonathan |author9-link=species:Jonathan Brecko |last10=Pauwels |first10=Olivier S.G. |author10-link=species:Olivier Sylvain Gérard Pauwels |last11=Rabibisoa |first11=Nirhy |author11-link=species:Nirhy Rabibisoa |last12=Raselimanana |first12=Achille P. |author12-link=Achille Philippe Raselimanana |last13=Merilä |first13=Juha |author13-link=species:Juha Merilä |date=2023 |title=Ultraconserved elements-based phylogenomic systematics of the snake superfamily Elapoidea, with the description of a new Afro-Asian family |url=https://zenodo.org/records/7746501/files/source.pdf |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |volume=180 |pages=107700 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107700 |pmid=36603697 |s2cid=255467733 |issn=1055-7903|doi-access=free |bibcode=2023MolPE.18007700D }}