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
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Reproduction | oviparous. |
Types | Holotype: ZSI 4011 |
Diagnosis | |
Comment | Venomous! |
References |
- Murthy, T.S.N. 2010. The reptile fauna of India. B.R. Publishing, New Delhi, 332 pp.
- 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
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