Micrelaps

Familia: Micrelapidae
Genus:
Species (3): M. bicoloratus – M. muelleri – M. vaillanti

Micrelaps Boettger, 1880: 136

• Type species: Micrelaps muelleri Boettger, 1880, by monotypy.

• Boettger, O. 1880. Die Reptilien und Amphibien von Syrien, Palæstina und Cypern. Bericht über die Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main 1879–1880: 132–219. BHL

• Rasmussen, J.B. 2002. A review of the African members of the genus Micrelaps Boettger 1880 (Serpentes Atractaspididae). Tropical Zoology 15(1): 71–87. DOI: 10.1080/03946975.2002.10531166 Reference page. 
• Werner, Y.L., Babocsay, G., Carmely, H. & Thuna, M. 2006. Micrelaps in the southern Levant: variation, sexual dimorphism, and a new species (Serpentes: Atractaspididae). Zoology in the Middle East 38(1): 29–48. DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2006.10638163 Reference page. 
• Jamison, S., Maza, E., Sinaiko, G., Tamar, K., Slavenko, A. & Mairi, S. 2020. To be or not to be tchernovi: a taxonomic revision of the snake genus Micrelaps (Squamata: Serpentes), in Israel. Zootaxa 4881(2): 290–306. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.2.4 Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Micrelaps . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 26 May 2025.