Naja christyi (BOULENGER, 1904)

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae, Elapoidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Christy's Water Cobra
Synonym	Boulengerina christyi BOULENGER 1904: 14 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	Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material.
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 - get paper here 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. Spawls, S., Branch, B. 2020. The Dangerous Snakes of Africa. Bloomsbury, London, 336 pp. - get paper here Trape, J.-F. 2023. Guide des serpents d’Afrique occidentale, centrale et d’Afrique du Nord. IRD Éditions, Marseille, 896 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 http://www.megasphera.cz/africanvenomoussnakes/_private/photo_snakes%20AFR… http://diglib1.amnh.org/cgi-bin/database/scipubs.cgi?pagemode=index&page… https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/634335188791083/ Google images

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