Aspidelaps

Aspidelaps is a genus of venomous elapid snakes endemic to Africa. Species in the genus Aspidelaps are commonly called shield-nosed cobras, African coral snakes or coral cobras after their cobra hoods and enlarged rostral (nose) scales. However, the hood is not nearly as well developed in Aspidelaps as it is in the true cobras of the genus Naja.

Aspidelaps
A. scutatus, the shield-nosed cobra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Elapidae
Genus:	Aspidelaps Fitzinger, 1843
range of A. lubricus   range of A. scutatus

Species

Image	Species	Authority	Subsp.*	Common name	Geographic range
	A. lubricus	(Laurenti, 1768)	2	Cape coral snake	South Africa (Cape Province), southern Angola, Namibia
	A. scutatus	(A. Smith, 1849)	3	shield-nosed cobra	Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, north-east South Africa, Mozambique

Venom

Aspidelaps venom is neurotoxic, and Aspidelaps bites have caused human deaths in a few cases.^[1]