Naja

Taxonavigation
[edit]| Taxonavigation: Elapoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Elapidae
Subfamilia: Elapinae
Genus: Naja
Subgenera (4): N. (Afronaja) – N. (Boulengerina) – N. (Naja) – N. (Uraeus)
Species (35):
N. anchietae –
N. annulata –
N. annulifera –
N. arabica –
N. ashei –
N. atra –
N. christyi –
N. fuxi –
N. guineensis –
N. haje –
N. kaouthia –
N. katiensis –
N. mandalayensis –
N. melanoleuca –
N. mossambica –
N. multifasciata –
N. naja –
N. nana –
N. nigricincta –
N. nigricollis –
N. nivea –
N. nubiae –
N. obscura –
N. oxiana –
N. pallida –
N. peroescobari –
N. philippinensis –
N. sagittifera –
N. samarensis –
N. savannula –
N. senegalensis –
N. siamensis –
N. sputatrix –
N. subfulva –
N. sumatrana
Name
[edit]Naja Laurenti, 1768
- Type species: Naja lutescens Laurenti, 1768
- Gender: feminine.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Laurenti, J.N. 1768. Specimen medicum, exhibens synopsin reptilium emendatam cum experimentis circa venena et antidota reptilium austriacorum, quod authoritate et consensu (In Latin). Joan Thomae: Vienna. 217 pp. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Wüster, W., Crookes, S., Ineich, I., Mané, Y., Pook, C.E., Trape, J.-F. & Broadley, D.G. 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(2): 437–453. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.07.021
Reference page. - Trape, J.-F., Chirio, L., Broadley, D.G. & Wüster, W. 2009. Phylogeography and systematic revision of the Egyptian cobra (Serpentes: Elapidae: Naja haje) species complex, with the description of a new species from West Africa. Zootaxa, 2236: 1–25. Abstract & excerpt Reference page.
- 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. Abstract & excerpt PDF Reference page.
- Kaiser, H., Crother, B.I., Kelly, C.M.R., Luiselli, L., O’Shea, M., Ota, H., Passos, P., Schleip, W.D. & Wüster, W. 2013. Best practices: in the 21st Century, taxonomic decisions in herpetology are acceptable only when supported by a body of evidence and published via peer-review. Herpetological Review 44(1): 8–23. PDF
Reference page. - Ceríaco, L.M.P., Marques, M.P., Schmitz, A. & Bauer, A.M.. 2017. The “Cobra-preta” of São Tomé Island, Gulf of Guinea, is a new species of Naja Laurenti, 1768 (Squamata: Elapidae). Zootaxa 4324(1): 121–141. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4324.1.7. Reference page.
- Wüster, W., Chirio, L., Trape, J.-F., Ineich, I., Jackson, K., Greenbaum, E., Barron, C., Kusamba, C., Nagy, Z.T., Storey, R., Hall, C., Wüster, C.E., Barlow, A. & Broadley, D.G.† 2018. Integration of nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences and morphology reveals unexpected diversity in the forest cobra (Naja melanoleuca) species complex in Central and West Africa (Serpentes: Elapidae). Zootaxa 4455(1): 68–98. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4455.1.3
Reference page. - Collet, M. & Trape, J.-F. 2020. Une nouvelle et remarquable espèce de naja semi-aquatique (Elapidae, sous-genre Boulengerina Dollo, 1886) de la République Démocratique du Congo. Bulletin de la Société Herpétologique de France 173: 41–52.Reference page.
- Shi, S.‐C., Vogel, G., Ding, L., Rao, D.‐Q., Liu, S., Zhang, L., Wu, Z.-J. & Chen, Z.‐N. 2022. Description of A New Cobra (Naja Laurenti, 1768; Squamata, Elapidae) from China with Designation of a Neotype for Naja atra. Animals 12(24): 3481. DOI: 10.3390/ani12243481
Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2026. Naja . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 15 September 2025.
Vernacular names
[edit]- беларуская: Сапраўдныя кобры
- Deutsch: Echte Cobras
- English: Cobras
- suomi: Kobrat
- 日本語: フードコブラ属
- Tyap: Tswúp
- lietuvių: Kobros
- Diné bizaad: Tłʼiish bikʼós niteelígíí
- ไทย: งูเห่า