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Naja melanoleuca Hallowell, 1857

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Hallowell, E. Notes of a collection of reptiles from the Gaboon country, West Africa, recently presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, by Dr. Herny A. Ford.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Squamata
family
Elapidae
genus
Naja
species
Naja melanoleuca

Name

Synonyms
Naja haje melanoleuca Hallowell, 1857
Naja haje var. leucosticta Fischer, 1885
Naja leucostica Bethencourt-Ferreira, 1930
Naja melanoleuca Matschie, 1893
Naja melanoleuca aurata Stucki-Stirn, 1979
Naja melanoleuca melanoleuca
Homonyms
Naja melanoleuca Hallowell, 1857
Naja melanoleuca Matschie, 1893
Common names
Black and White Cobra in English
Black and White Cobra in English
Black and White Cobra in English
Central Africa Forest Cobra in English
Central African Forest Cobra in English
Central African Forest Cobra in English
Centralafrikank Skovkobra in Danish
Cobra della foresta in Italian
Cobra des forêts in French
Cobra-da-floresta in Portuguese
Forest Cobra in English
Forest Cobra in English
Mustahuulikobra in Finnish
Schwarzweiße Hutschlange in German
Schwarzweiße Kobra in German
Schwarzweiße Kobra in German
Svartleppekobra in Norwegian Bokmål
erdei kobra in Hungarian
kobra czarnobiała in Polish
kobra černá in Czech
Чёрно-белая кобра in Russian
কালো কোবরা in Bengali
森林眼鏡蛇 in Chinese
Central Africa Forest Cobra in English

Bibliographic References

  1. David, Patrick, and Ivan Ineich, 1999: Les serpents venimeux du monde: systematique et repartition. Dumerilia, vol. 3. 3-499.
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