Taxa

Micrelapidae

Family

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General Reference

Nature Atlas. "Micrelapidae." Accessed September 8, 2026. https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/family-micrelapidae.

APA Style

Nature Atlas. (n.d.). Micrelapidae. Retrieved September 8, 2026, from https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/family-micrelapidae

BibTeX

@misc{natureatlas-micrelapidae,
  author = {Nature Atlas},
  title = {Micrelapidae},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/family-micrelapidae},
  note = {Accessed September 8, 2026}
}

Micrelapidae is a family of rear-fanged, mildly venomous snakes containing a single genus, Micrelaps, native to Africa and the Middle East. The genus was described by Boettger in 1880 and includes four recognized species found across a range spanning Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania in Africa and Israel, Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon in the Middle East. The family Micrelapidae itself was established in 2023.

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