Naja sagittifera WALL, 1913

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Andaman Cobra
Synonym	Naja tripudians var. sagittifera WALL 1913: 248 Naja kaouthia sagittifera DERANIYAGALA 1960 Naja naja sagittifera LEVITON 1968 Naja naja sagittifera — HARDING & WELCH 1980 Naja kaouthia WÜSTER & THORPE 1991 (part) Naja sagittifera WÜSTER et al. 1995 Naja (Naja) sagittifera — WALLACH et al. 2009 Naja sagittifera — WALLACH et al. 2014: 462
Distribution	India: Andaman Islands
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: ZSI 4011
Diagnosis	Characters (Andaman islands): “Dorsal scales granular and smooth, in 27:21:15 rows; ventrals 178–182; subcaudals 60–63, divided; anal single; supralabials 7 (3&4 entering orbit); infralabials 8 (1–5) in contact with genials; preocular 1; postoculars 2; loreal absent; temporals 2+3. A distinct, monocle mark present on the hood. Juveniles dark black with 34–40 white cross-bars while adults turn grey with the markings and bands turning black.” (Chandramouli 2022)
Comment	Venomous! Distribution: For a map see Shi et al. 2022: 3 (Fig. 1).
References	CHANDRAMOULI, S. 2022. Snake fauna of the Andaman Islands, Bay of Bengal—A review of species richness, taxonomy, distribution, natural history and conservation status. Zootaxa 5209 (3): 301-331 - get paper here Murthy, T.S.N. 2010. The reptile fauna of India. B.R. Publishing, New Delhi, 332 pp. Shi, S.‐C.; Vogel, G.; Ding, L.; Rao, D.‐Q.; Liu, S.; Zhang, L.; Wu, Z.‐J.; Chen, Z.‐N. 2022. Description of A New Cobra (Naja Laurenti, 1768; Squamata, Elapidae) from China with Designation of a Neotype for Naja atra. Animals 2022, 12, 3481 Slowinski, Joseph B. and Wolfgang Wüster. 2000. A new cobra (Elapidae: Naja) from Myanmar (Burma). Herpetologica 56 (2): 257-270 - get paper here Wall, F. 1913. A popular treatise on the common Indian snakes (part 2). J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 22: 243-259 - get paper here 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. Whitaker, Romulus and Ashok Captain 2004. Snakes of India. Draco Books, 500 pp., reprinted 2007 - get paper here Wüster, W.; Thorpe,R.S.; Cox,M.J.; Jintakune,P.; Nabhitabhata,J. 1995. Populuation systematics of the snake genus Naja (Reptilia: Serpentes: Elapidae) in Indochina: Multivariate morphometrics and comparative mitochondrial DNA sequencing (cytochrome oxidase I). J. Evol. Biol. 8: 493-510 - get paper here Wüster, Wolfgang 1998. The cobras of the genus Naja in India. Hamadryad 23 (1): 15-32 - get paper here
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.andamannicobarsnakes.com/Najasagittifera.html Google images

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