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Higher TaxaElapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Günther’s Garter Snake 
SynonymElapsoidea guntherii BOCAGE 1866: 50
Elapsoidea hessei BOETTGER 1887: 651
Elapsoidea guentheri — GÜNTHER 1895: 525
Elapechis guentheri — BOULENGER 1896: 359 (part.)
Elapechis hessii — BOULENGER 1896: 360
Elapechis guentheri — BOULENGER 1897: 280
Elapechis guentheri — STERNFELD 1917
Elapsoidea güntherii — LOVERIDGE 1936: 41
Elapsoidea sundevallii güntherii — LOVERIDGE 1944: 222
Elapsoidea sundevallii decosteri BROADLEY 1959 (part.) (fide GOLAY et al.)
Elapsoidea decosteri scalaris LAURENT 1960
Elapsoidea loveridgei scalaris LAURENT 1960: 60 (fide JAKOBSEN 1997)
Elapsoidea güntheri — PERRET 1961
Elapsoidea guentheri — BROADLEY 1971: 600
Elapsoidea loveridgei scalaris — BROADLEY 1971: 608
Elapechis guentherii — ELTER 1981
Elapsoidea guentheri — BRANCH 1981: 12
Elapsoidea guentheri — GOLAY et al. 1993
Elapsoidea loveridgei scalaris — GOLAY et al. 1993: 134
Elapsoidea guentherii — WELCH 1994: 59
Elapsoidea guentherii — DOBIEY & VOGEL 2007
Elapsoidea guentherii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 266
Elapsoidea guentherii — CONRADIE et al. 2021
Elapsoidea guentheri — PIETERSEN et al. 2021
Elapsoidea guentheri — TRAPE 2023: 202 
DistributionW/E/S Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Congo (Brazzaville), Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe

scalaris: Zaire (Kivu Province); Type locality: Luberizi, Kivu, Zaire.

Type locality: Cabinda, restricted by PARKER 1949.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: lost; destroyed fide BROADLEY in GOLAY et al. 1993 (formerly in Museu Bocage Lisboa 1935).
Holotype: RMCA (= MRAC) (Musée royal d l’Afrique centrale, Tervuren), R-20756 [scalaris] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus): Maxilla with twi karge tubular fangs anteriorly, separated by a diastema from three small solid teeth; midbody scale-rows 13, ventrals 131-181, tail short with 13-33 paired subcaudals; internasals not bordering nostril; colour pattern consisting of alternate pale and dark crossbands, well defined in juveniles (except in E. chelazziorum), but fading with age so that some species have uniformly coloured adults (Jakobsen 1997: 60).


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CommentVenomous! Members of the genus are venomous but they are inoffensive, rarely bite and their venom is not very toxic to humans; it can cause swelling, local pain and lymphangitis. No human fatalities are known.

Type species: Elapsoidea güntherii is the type species of the genus Elapsoidea. Synonymy partly after GOLAY et al. 1993.

Characters: see Table 1 in Jakobsen 1997 for all species except E. trapei.

Key: to species of Southern Africa in Branch 1981.

Distribution: see map in Broadley 1971: 602 (Fig. 6). Reports from Cameroon (Perret (1961) are probably in error as all other records are from far further south/east. Not listed for Cameroon by Chirio & LeBreton 2007. Lovereige 1944: 225 listed guentherii from a much larger area, ranging from Kenya to Congo to Senegambia, via Togo, Nigeria, Portuguese Guinea. See map in Chippaux & Jackson 2019: 113 for its range in the Congo basin and Angola. 
EtymologyNamed after Albert Günther (1830-1914), German-born zoologist at the British Museum. 
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