Naja nigricincta BOGERT, 1940

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies	Naja nigricincta nigricincta BOGERT 1940 Naja nigricincta woodi PRINGLE 1955
Common Names	E: Western Barred Spitting Cobra G: Zebraschlange, Namibia Speikobra woodi: Black Spitting Cobra
Synonym	Naja nigricollis nigricincta BOGERT 1940 Naja nigricollis var. fasciata BOCAGE 1895: 136 (fide BROADLEY 1974) Naja nigricollis nigricinctus BOGERT 1940 Naja mossambica nirgicincta — BROADLEY 1968 Naja nigricollis nigricincta — BRANCH 1981: 31 Naja nigricollis nigricincta — AUERBACH 1987: 199 Naja nigricollis nigricincta — BAUER et al. 1993 Naja nigricollis nigricincta — WELCH 1994: 93 Naja nigricincta — CIMATTI 2007 Naja nigricincta — WÜSTER et al. 2007 Naja (Afronaja) nigricincta — WALLACH et al. 2009 Afronaja nigricincta — WALLACH et al. 2014: 10 Naja nigricincta — SCHLEICHER 2015: 209 Naja nigricincta — SCHLEICHER 2020 Naja nigricincta woodi PRINGLE 1955 Naja nigra SMITH 1838: 92 (fide BRANCH & BAUER 2005) Naja nigricollis woodi PRINGLE 1955: 253 Naja mossambica woodi — BROADLEY 1968 Naja nigricollis woodi — BROADLEY 1974: 158 Naja nigricollis woodi — BRANCH 1981: 30 Naja nigricollis woodi — WELCH 1994: 93 Naja nigricollis woodi — AUERBACH 1987: 198 Naja woodi — BAUER & BRANCH 2003 Naja nigricincta woodi — WÜSTER et al. 2007 Naja nigricincta woodi — BATES et al. 2014: 405 Naja nigricincta woodi — SCHLEICHER 2015: 207
Distribution	N Namibia, SW Angola Type locality: Munhino, S.W. Angola. woodi: Republic of South Africa, S Namibia, S Botswana; Type locality: Citrusdal, Cape Province.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: AMNH 51823. Holotype: SAM 19926 [woodi]
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Comment	Venomous! BOYCOTT & HAACKE (1979) noted intergradation between nigricincta and woodi in Southern Namibia.
Etymology	Named after the black bands, from Latin niger, nigra, nigrum = black, and Latin cingere = girdle, ring.
References	Auerbach, R.D. 1987. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Botswana. Mokwepa Consultants, Botswana, 295 pp. Barts, Mirko. 2014. Naja nigricincta nigricincta Bogert, 1940 Zebraschlange, Namibia Speikobra, Western Barred Cobra, Zebra Cobra. Sauria 36 (1): 1-2 - get paper here Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M.; Burger, M., Marais, J.; Alexander, G.J. & de Villliers, M.S. (eds.) 2014. Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 512 pp. Bauer, Aaron M.; Branch, William R. & Haacke, Wulf D. 1993. The herpetofauna of the Kamanjab area and adjacent Damaraland, Namibia. Madoqua (Windhoek) 18 (2): 117-145. - get paper here Berg, Philipp & Francois Theart 2022. Bildungsarbeit zur Vermeidung von Mensch-Schlange-Konflikten in Namibia. Elaphe 2022 (5): 46-53 Bogert,C.M. 1940. Herpetological results of the Vernay Angola Expedition. I. Snakes, including an arrangement of the African Colubridae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 77: 1-107 - get paper here Branch, W. R. 1981. The venomous snakes of southern Africa 2. Elapidae and Hydrophidae. Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 17 (1): 1-47 - get paper here Branch, William R. 1993. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 144 S. Branch, William R. & Bauer, Aaron M. 2005. The herpetological contributions of Sir Andrew Smith. SSAR, 80 pp. Broadley, D. G. 1974. A review of the cobras of the Naja nigricollis complex in southwestern Africa (Serpentes: Elapidae). Cimbebasia (A) 2: 155-162 Broadley, D.G. 1968. A review of the African cobras of the genus Naja (Serpentes: Elapinae). Arnoldia (Rhodesia) (ser. 3) 29: 1-14 Chippaux, Jean-Philippe & Kate Jackson 2019. Snakes of Central and Western Africa. Johns Hopkins University Press, 448 pp. [detaileld review in HR 51 (1): 161] - get paper here Cimatti, E. 2007. Namibia - Introduction to a vast territory. Reptilia (GB) (50): 58-67 - get paper here CUNNINGHAM, P. & VAN DER WAAL, C. 2010. Naja nigricincta nigricincta (Bogert, 1940) Diet. African Herp News (51): 9-11 - get paper here Dobiey, M. & Vogel, G. 2007. Venomous Snakes of Africa - Giftschlangen Afrikas. Edition Chimaira, Terralog 15, 150 pp. - get paper here Herrmann, H.-W.; W.R. Branch 2013. Fifty years of herpetological research in the Namib Desert and Namibia with an updated and annotated species checklist. Journal of Arid Environments 93: 94–115 - get paper here Kreuzer, M. 2011. Haltung und Nachzucht der Gebänderten Speikobra, Naja nigricincta nigricincta Terraria (32) 6 (6): 68-70. Kwet, A. 2016. Die afrikanische Antiserum-Krise. Terraria-Elaphe 2016 (4): 8-9 - get paper here Lobón-Rovira J, Vaz Pinto P, S. Becker F, Tolley KA, Measey J, Bennet B, Boon B, de Sá S, Conradie W 2022. An updated herpetofaunal species inventory of Iona National Park in southwestern Angola. Check List 18(2): 289-321 - get paper here Marques, Mariana P.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco , David C. Blackburn , and Aaron M. Bauer 2018. Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola -- Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840–2017). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (Ser. 4) 65: 1-501 (Supplement II) O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here Pringle, JA. 1955. A new species of the spitting Cobra Naja nigricollis Reinhardt from the Cape Province. Ann. Natal Mus. 13: 253-254. SANTOS, B. S. .,MARQUES, M. P. ., BAUER, A. M. ., & CERÍACO, L. M. P. . 2021. Herpetological results of Francisco Newton’s Zoological Expedition to Angola (1903–1906): a taxonomic revision and new records of a forgotten collection. Zootaxa 5028 (1): 1–80 - get paper here Schleicher, Alfred 2015. Reptilien Namibias. Namibia Scientific Society, 276 pp. Schleicher, Alfred 2020. Reptiles of Namibia. Kuiseb Publishers, Windhoek, Namibia, 271 pp. Smith, A. 1838. Contributions to the Natural History of Southern Africa. Art. VIII. Mag. Nat. Hist., London, 2 (14): 92-94 Spawls, S., Branch, B. 2020. The Dangerous Snakes of Africa. Bloomsbury, London, 336 pp. - get paper here Tolley, K.A., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Weeber, J., Burger, M. & Alexander, G.J. (eds) 2023. Conservation status of the reptiles of South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho. Suricata 10. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria 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. Winchell, S. 2011. Kobras. Reptilia (Münster) 16 (89): 16-22 - get paper here 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
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