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Ophiophagus elaps
Ophiophagus O`phi*oph"a*gus, n. [NL. See Ophiophagous.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of venomous East Indian snakes, which feed on other snakes. Ophiophagus elaps is said to be the largest and most deadly of poisonous snakes.

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- The king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is a venomous snake endemic to Asia. The sole member of the genus Ophiophagus, it is not taxonomically a true cobra...
- CITES Apenndix lists. Some of the protected species are: Vulnerable: Ophiophagus hannah (King cobra) Austrelaps labialis (Pygmy copperhead) Denisonia...
- that of the nominate subspecies. Jameson's mamba was first described as Elaps jamesoni in 1843 by Thomas Traill, a Scottish doctor, zoologist and scholar...
- first described by the German naturalist Hermann Schlegel in 1848, with Elaps jamesonii as the type species. It was misspelt as Dendraspis by Dumeril...
- Oocatochus rufodorsatus Opheodrys Opheodrys aestivus Opheodrys vernalis Ophiophagus Ophiophagus hannah Ophryacus Ophryacus smaragdinus Ophryacus sphenophrys Ophryacus...