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Cobras, mambas and coral snakes share with kraits and sea snakes fixed venom fangs at the front of the jaw. The venom acts mostly on the nervous system. The family lives in warm regions. It dominates among the venomous snakes of Australia. Coral snakes are often ringed in bright colours.
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Elapidae
Aspidelaps lubricus · Least concern
Night is its hunting time, and its prey of choice are lizards, often day-active ones caught asleep. In the dry Karoo it finds them by smell and taste; threatened, it rears up before striking. Its hatchlings already measure 17 to 18 cm.
Photo: Ryanvanhuyssteen (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Elapidae
Bungarus fasciatus · Least concern
Gold and black rings mark the banded krait, the longest krait of its kind at up to 2.25 m. It is timid and docile, yet its venom is lethal to humans, and its size gives it the largest venom yield of its genus. It feeds mainly on other snakes, swallowed head first.
Photo: Lawrence Hylton (CC BY 4.0)
Elapidae
Laticauda colubrina · Least concern
It hunts eels and small fish underwater, but the yellow-lipped sea krait comes back to land to digest, rest and breed. It therefore often meets people; it is not aggressive, though, and only bites when it feels threatened. Its neurotoxic venom is very potent, and some of the eels it feeds on may have evolved resistance to it.
Photo: Jens Petersen (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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