Naja naja

Familia: Elapidae
Subfamilia: Elapinae
Genus: Naja
Subgenus Naja
Species:

Naja naja (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Lectotype: NHR Lin-90 (formerly MAFR). [designated by Wallach, Williams & Boundy (2014: 470)]
• Type locality: “India orientali”.

• Coluber naja Linnaeus, 1758: 221 [original combination]
• Vipera naja — Daudin, 1803 [subsequent combination]
• Naia naia — Günther, 1864 [subsequent combination]
• Naja naja — Stejneger, 1907 [subsequent combination]

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page. 
• Wallach, V., Williams, K.L. & Boundy, J. 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 1237 pp. ISBN 9781138034006 Reference page. 

• Wüster, W. & Thorpe, R.S. 1992. Asiatic cobras: population systematics of the Naja naja species complex (Serpentes: Elapidae) in India and Central Asia. Herpetologica 48(1): 69–85. JSTOR Reference page. 
• Wüster, W. 1996. Taxonomic changes and toxinology: Systematic revisions of the asiatic cobras (Naja naja species complex). Toxicon 34: 399–406. DOI: 10.1016/0041-0101(95)00139-5 Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Naja naja. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 15 June 2013.
• de Silva, A., Ukuwela, K., Shankar, G., Srinivasulu, B., Das, A., Vyas, R., Sawant, N.S., Kulkarni, N.U., Deepak, V., Thakur, S., Mohapatra, P., Srinivasulu, C. & Achyuthan, N.S. 2021. IUCN: Naja naja  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T62241A3110222. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T62241A3110222.en. Accessed on 16 June 2023.

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