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species

Brown forest cobra
Naja subfulva Laurent, 1955

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  order Squamata - lizards and snakes »  family Elapidae »  genus Naja - Common Cobras

Scientific synonyms

Naja melanoleuca subfulva Laurent, 1955

Other names

= Savannah Cobra

Images

Naja subfulva - Brown forest cobra

Author: Roman Hynek

Naja subfulva - Brown forest cobra

Author: Roman Hynek

Naja subfulva - Brown forest cobra

Author: Roman Hynek

Naja subfulva - Brown forest cobra

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Naja subfulva - Brown forest cobra

Author: Klaus Rudloff

Naja subfulva - Brown forest cobra

Author: Rainer Traxl

Distribution

Central African Republic, Chad, Cameroon, SE Nigeria, Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa), Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, (South ?) Sudan, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Angola, Republic of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Burundi

Links and literature

EN Wüster, Wolfgang; Laurent Chirio, Jean-François Trape, Ivan Ineich, Kate Jackson, Eli Greenbaum, Cesar Barron, Chifundera Kusamba, Zoltán T. Nagy, Richard Storey, Cara Hall, Catharine E. Wüster, Axel Barlow, Donald G. Broadley (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): 068–098

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