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    Species Accepted

    Naja melanoleuca Hallowell, 1857

    Black and White Cobra
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Naja
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      Recorded as introduced in 1 country or island

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      Introduced inAccording toInvasiveOccurrences in GBIF
      South AfricaNo
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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      18 results
      Black and White Cobra English
      Central Africa Forest Cobra English
      Central African Forest Cobra English
      Centralafrikank Skovkobra Danish
      Cobra della foresta Italian
      Cobra des forêts French
      Cobra-da-floresta Portuguese
      Forest Cobra English
      Mustahuulikobra Finnish
      Schwarzweiße Hutschlange German

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Hallowell, E. (1857) Notes of a collection of reptiles from the Gaboon country, West Africa, recently presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, by Dr. Henry A. Ford. Proceedings of Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 9, 48 - 72. Published in
      Boulenger, G. A. (1906). Report on the reptiles collected by the late L. Fea in West Africa. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova (3) 2: 196-216.
      Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M.; Burger, M., Marais, J.; Alexander, G.J. & de Villliers, M.S. (eds.). (2014). Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 512 Pp.
      Broadley, D. G. (1991). The Herpetofauna of Northern Mwinilunga Distr., Northw. Zambia. Arnoldia Zimbabwe 9 (37): 519-538.
      Mitchell, B. L. (1950). Some reptiles and amphibians of Nyasaland. The Nyasaland Journal 3 (2): 46-57.
      Segniagbeto GLazcano. H., Trape J. F., David P., Ohler A., Dubois A. & Glitho I. A. (2011). The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems. Zoosystema 33 (3): 325-360. DOI: 10.5252/Z2011n3a4.
      Branch, W. R. (1981). The venomous snakes of southern Africa 2. Elapidae and Hydrophidae. Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 17 (1): 1-47.
      Broadley, D. G. (1959). The herpetology of Southern Rhodesia. Part I--the snakes. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 120 (1): 1-100 [Reprint 1972].
      Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy. (2014). Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue]. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 Pp.
      Broadley, D.G.; Doria, C.T. & Wigge, J. (2003). Snakes of Zambia. An Atlas and Field Guide. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 280 Pp. [Review in Sauria 26 (3): 21].

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