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Articles:

Peter Mirtschin, Toxicity and Relative Toxicity in Snake Venoms, Monitor, vol. 10 No. 1 septemer 1998, 10-12.

WÜSTER, W., B. BUSH, J.S. KEOGH, M. O'SHEA & R. SHINE (2001) Taxonomic contributions in the "amateur" literature: comments on recent descriptions ofnew genera and species by Raymond Hoser. Litteratura Serpentium, 21(3): 67-79, 86-91. Adobe Acrobat version of submitted manuscript available here

SLOWINSKI, J.B. & W. WÜSTER (2000) A new cobra (Elapidae: Naja) from Myanmar ( Burma ). Herpetologica, 56(2): 257-270.

CHAN-ARD, T., B.L. STUART & W. WÜSTER (2000) First record of Indochinese spitting cobra Naja siamensis Laurenti (Serpentes: Elapidae) from Laos , with comments on the genus in the country. Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society, 48(1): 149-152.

WÜSTER, W. (1998) The cobras of the genus Naja in India . Hamadryad, 23(1): 15-32

WÜSTER, W., D.A. WARRELL, M.J. COX, P. JINTAKUNE & J. NABHITABHATA (1997) Redescription of Naja siamensis Laurenti, 1768 (Serpentes: Elapidae), a widely overlooked spitting cobra from Southeast Asia: geographic variation, medical importance and designation of a neotype. Journal of Zoology, 243: 771-788.

DALTRY, J.C., W. WÜSTER & R.S. THORPE (1996) Diet and snake venom evolution. Nature, 379: 537-540.

WÜSTER, W. (1996) Taxonomic changes and toxinology: systematic revisions of the Asiatic cobras (Naja naja species complex). Toxicon, 34(4): 399-406. Adobe Acrobat version downloadable here

WÜSTER, W. (1996) The status of the cobras of the genus Naja Laurenti, 1768 (Reptilia: Serpentes: Elapidae) on the island of Sulawesi . The Snake, 27(2): 85-90.

WÜSTER, W. (1996). Systematics, venom variation and toxinology: bridging gaps between evolutionary biology and biomedical science. Toxicon, 34(7): 733. Adobe Acrobat version downloadable here

WÜSTER, W. (1996) Venomous snake systematics: implications for snakebite treatment and toxinology. Toxicon, 34: 143. Adobe Acrobat version downloadable here

WÜSTER, W. & C.J. MCCARTHY (1996) Venomous snake systematics: implications for snakebite treatment and toxinology. In C. Bon & M. Goyffon (Eds.), Envenomings and their Treatments: 13-23. Fondation Mérieux, Lyon.

WÜSTER, W. & A.L. HARVEY (1996) Reviews of venomous snake systematics in Toxicon. Toxicon, 34(4): 397-398. Adobe Acrobat version downloadable here

WÜSTER, W., R.S. THORPE, M.J. COX, P. JINTAKUNE & J. NABHITABHATA (1995) Population systematics of the snake genus Naja (Reptilia: Serpentes: Elapidae) in Indochina: multivariate morphometrics and comparative mitochondrial DNA sequencing (cytochrome oxidase I). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 8: 493-510.

THORPE, R.S., J. DALTRY, W. WÜSTER, A. MALHOTRA & N.L. THORPE (1995) The biology of dangerous snakes - systematics and venom evolution. Toxicon 33(5): 589.

WÜSTER, W. & R.S. THORPE (1994) Naja siamensis, a cryptic species of venomous snake revealed by mtDNA sequencing. Experientia, 50: 75-79.

WÜSTER, W. & R.S. THORPE (1992) Dentitional phenomena in cobras revisited: fang structure and spitting in the Asiatic species of Naja (Serpentes: Elapidae). Herpetologica, 48(4): 424-434.

WÜSTER, W. & R.S. THORPE (1992) Asiatic cobras: population systematics of the Naja naja species complex (Serpentes: Elapidae) in India and Central Asia . Herpetologica, 48(1): 69-85.

WÜSTER, W. (1992) A century of confusion: Asiatic cobras revisited. The Vivarium, 4: 14-18.

WÜSTER, W. (1992) Cobras and other herps in southeast Asia. British Herpetological Society Bulletin, 39: 19-25.

WÜSTER, W. & R.S. THORPE (1991) Asiatic cobras: systematics and snakebite. Experientia, 47: 205-209. WÜSTER, W. & R.S. THORPE (1990) Systematics and biogeography of the Asiatic cobra (Naja naja) species complex in the Philippine Islands. In G. Peters & R. Hutterer (Eds.), Vertebrates in the Tropics: 333-344. Museum A. Koenig, Bonn .

WÜSTER, W. & R.S. THORPE (1989) Population affinities of the Asiatic cobra (Naja naja) species complex in south-east Asia : reliability and random resampling. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 36: 391-409.

WÜSTER, W. & R.S. THORPE (1987) Geographic variation in the cobras of the genus Naja in southeast Asia: a multivariate analysis. In J.J. van Gelder, H. Strijbosch & P.J.M. Bergers (Eds.): Proceedings of the 4th Ordinary General Meeting of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica: 449-452. Faculty of Sciences, Nijmegen.

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G.V. Haagner & D.R. Morgan, The Maintennance and Propagation of the Black Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) at the Manyeleti Reptile Centre, Eastern Transvaal , Int. Zoo Yb. 1993, 32: 191-196.

G.V. Haagner & D.R. Morgan, Husbandry and propagation of the Cape Cobra (Naja nivea) at the Manyeleti Reptile Centre, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr. 40 August 1992.

R.Biseswar, A Comparative Study of the Morphology of the chondrocranium of Dendroaspis angusticeps and D. polylepis polylepis. S. Afr. J. Zool, 1980, 15(4).

Jan Kopczynski, Breeding and exhibiting the Monocellate Cobra (Naja kaouthia) at Plock Zoo, Int. Zoo. Yb, 1993, 32: 197-204.

G.V. Haagner & D.R. Morgon, The Captive propagation of the Eastern Green Mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps). Int. Zoo. Yb, 1989 28: 195-199

Luca Luiselli, Francesco M. Angelici, Godfrey C. Akani, Large Elapids and Arboreality : the ecology of the Jameson’s Green Mamba (Dendroaspis jamesoni) in Afrotropical forested region, Controbutions to Zollogy, 69 (3) 2000.

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