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| Scientific name | Common name |
| Acanthophis | Death adders |
| Austrelaps | Copperheads |
| Echiopsis | Bardick snakes, Lake Cronin snakes |
| Hoplocephalus | Broad-headed, Pale-headed, Stephen's banded snakes |
| Notechis | Tiger snakes |
| Oxyuranus | Taipans |
| Pseudechis | Black snakes |
| Pseudonaja | Brown snakes |
| Tropidechis | Rough-scaled snakes |
All Australian venomous snakes are close relatives of the cobras and thus belong to the elapid family. These snakes are characterized by small fangs fixed to bone as opposed to the large mobile fangs characteristic of the viper family.