Cobras

A cobra is a venomous snake, which is a member of the family Elapidae (elapids). The name is short for cobra de capelo, which is Portuguese for "snake with hood," or "hood-snake. When disturbed, most of these snakes can rear up and spread their neck (or hood) in a characteristic threat display. However, not all snakes referred to as cobras are of the same genus, or even of the same family.

Naja

• Anchieta's cobra - Naja anchietae (Bocage, 1879)
• Snouted cobra - Naja annulifera (Peters, 1854)
• Arabian cobra - Naja arabica (Scortecci, 1932 )
• Ashe's spitting cobra (Giant spitting cobra) - Naja ashei (Wüster and Broadley, 2007)
• Chinese cobra - Naja atra (Cantor, 1842)
• Egyptian cobra - Naja haje (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Monocled cobra - Naja kaouthia (Lesson, 1831)
• Mali cobra - Naja katiensis (Angel, 1922)
• Mandalay spitting cobra - Naja mandalayensis (Slowinski & Wüster, 2000)
• Forest cobra - Naja melanoleuca (Hallowell, 1857)
• Mozambique spitting cobra - Naja mossambica (Peters, 1854)
• Indian cobra (Spectacled cobra) - Naja naja (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Zebra spitting cobra - Naja nigricincta (Bogert, 1940)
• Black-necked spitting cobra - Naja nigricollis (Reinhardt, 1843)
  • Black Necked Spitting Cobra - N. n. nigricollis
  • Zebra Spitting Cobra - N. n. nigricincta
  • Black Spitting Cobra - N. n. woodi
• Cape cobra (Yellow Cobra) - Naja nivea (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Nubian spitting cobra - Naja nubiae (Wüster & Broadly, 2003)
• Central Asian cobra - Naja oxiana (Eichwald, 1831)
• Red spitting cobra - Naja pallida (Boulenger, 1896)
• Philippine cobra - Naja philippinensis (Taylor, 1922)
• Andaman cobra - Naja sagittifera (Wall, 1913)
• Peters' cobra - Naja samarensis (Peters, 1861)
• Naja senegalensis (Trape, Chirio & Wüster, 2009)
• Indo-Chinese spitting cobra - Naja siamensis (Laurenti, 1768)
• Indonesian cobra - Naja sputatrix (F. Boie, 1827)
• Golden spitting cobra - Naja sumatrana (Müller, 1887)

• Cape coral snakea - A. lubricus (Laurenti, 1768)
• Shield-nosed cobra - A. scutatus (A. Smith, 1849)

• Ringed Water Cobra - Boulengerina annulata (Buchholz & Peters, 1876)
• Christy's Water Cobra - Boulengerina christyi (Boulenger, 1904)

• Rinkhals Spitting Cobra- Hemachatus haemachatus (Cantor, 1836)

• King Cobra - Ophiophagus hannah (Cantor, 1836)

• Burrowing Cobra - Paranaja multifasciata anomala(Sternfeld, 1917)
• - Paranaja multifasciata duttoni (Boulenger, 1904)
• - Paranaja multifasciata multifasciata (Werner, 1902)

• Gold's tree cobra - Pseudohaje goldii
• Black tree cobra - Pseudohaje nigra

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