Naja christyi (BOULENGER, 1904)

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Christy's Water Cobra
Synonym	Boulengerina christyi BOULENGER 1904 Limnonaja christyi SCHMIDT 1923: 125 Limnonaja christyi — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1942: 114 Boulengerina christyi — WELCH 1994: 37 Boulengerina christyi — TRAPE & ROUX-ESTÈVE 1995: 43 Naja christyi — WÜSTER et al. 2007 Naja (Boulengerina) christyi — WALLACH et al. 2009 Boulengerina christyi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 120
Distribution	W Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Congo (Brazzaville) Type locality: Leopoldville, Congo
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Type: BMNH 1946.1.17.94 (and possibly additional specimens).
Diagnosis
Comment	Venomous! The description by SCHMIDT (1923) is available online (see URL below).
Etymology	Named after Dr. Cuthbert Christy (1863-1932), a Scottish physician who travelled extensively in the West Indies, South America, Africa and the Middle East. He was a member of a League of Nations commission enquiring into slavery and forced labor in Liberia and at some time Director of the Congo Museum, Tervuren, Belgium.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1904. Descriptions of two new Elapine snakes from the Congo. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 14: 14 - get paper here Chifundera, K. 1990. Snakes of Zaire and their bites. Afr. Stud. Monogr. (Kyoto) 10(3): 137-157. COLLET, Marcel & Jean-Francois TRAPE 2020. Une nouvelle et remarquable espèce de naja semi-aquatique (Elapidae, sous-genre Boulengerina Dollo, 1886) de la République Démocratique du Congo. Bull. Soc. Herp. France 173: 41-52 Dobiey, M. & Vogel, G. 2007. Venomous Snakes of Africa - Giftschlangen Afrikas. Edition Chimaira, Terralog 15, 150 pp. - get paper here Schmidt, K. P. 1923. Contributions to the herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Part II. Snakes, with field notes by Herbert Lang and James P. Chapin. Bull. Amer. Mus. nat. Hist. 49 (1): 1-146 - get paper here Spawls, S., Branch, B. 1995. The Dangerous Snakes of Africa. Blandford, London, 192 pp. Trape, J.F. & R. ROUX-ESTÈVE 1990. Note sur une collection de serpents du Congo avec description d'une espèce nouvelle. Rev. Zool. Afr. (J. Afr. Zool.) 104: 375-383 Trape, J.F. & R. ROUX-ESTÈVE 1995. Les serpents du Congo: liste commentée et clé de détermination. Journal of African Zoology 109 (1): 31-50 Wallach, V.; Wüster, W. & Broadley, D.G. 2009. In praise of subgenera: taxonomic status of cobras of the genus Naja Laurenti (Serpentes: Elapidae). Zootaxa 2236: 26–36 - get paper here Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp. Witte, G. F. de & R. LAURENT 1942. Contribution à la Faune Herpétologique du Congo belge. Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr. 36 (2): 101-115 Wüster, Wolfgang; Steven Crookes, Ivan Ineich, Youssouph Mané, Catharine E. Pook, Jean-Francois Trape, Donald G. Broadley 2007. The phylogeny of cobras inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences: Evolution of venom spitting and the phylogeography of the African spitting cobras (Serpentes: Elapidae: Naja nigricollis complex). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45: 437–453 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Scheduled http://www.megasphera.cz/africanvenomoussnakes/_private/photo_snakes%20AFR… http://www.wildherps.com/species/A.flagellicauda.html http://diglib1.amnh.org/cgi-bin/database/scipubs.cgi?pagemode=index&page… http://www.chuckwalla-reptiles-tirol.at/chuckwalla/ Google images

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