Table 11.

Clinical features of chromatophoromas in the reptile family: Elapidae.

Species	Site	Diagnosis	Presence of Visceral Metastases	Organs Affected by Metastases	Citation
Common death adder (Acanthophis antarcticus)	Cutaneous	Melanoma	Yes	Adventitia of esophagus, pericardium	[41]
Strap-snouted brown snake (Pseudonaja aspidorhynchus)	Cutaneous	Malignant melanophoroma	Yes	Esophagus, intestine, liver, descending aorta	[24]
Tiger snake (Notechis scutatus)	Cutaneous	Malignant melanophoroma	No		[24]
Eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis)	Cutaneous	Melanophoroma	No		[24]
Mengden’s brown snake (Pseudonaja mengdeni)	Cutaneous	Malignant melanophoroma	No		[24]
Black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis)	Disseminated, specific sites unspecified	Malignant melanoma	Not reported		[55]
Cape cobra (Naja nivea)	Cutaneous	Mixed chromatophoroma (melanophoroma and iridophoroma)	No		[12]