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    Species Accepted

    Naja mossambica Peters, 1854

    Black-necked Spitting Cobra
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Naja
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Black-necked Spitting Cobra English
      Cobra cracheur du Mozambique French
      Cobra sputatore del Mozambico Italian
      Cobra-cuspideira Portuguese
      Kake Tswana
      Mosambik-Speikobra German
      Mosambikisk Spyttekobra Norwegian Bokmål
      Mozambique Spitting Cobra English
      Phakhuphakhu Venda
      Spuugslang Afrikaans

      Treatments

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      Bibliography

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      65 results
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      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.
      Fischer, J. G. (1884). Über einige afrikanische Reptilien, Amphibien und Fische des Naturhistorischen Museums I. Über die von Herrn Dr. G.A. Fischer in Massai Gebiete (Ost Afrika) auf seiner in Veranlassung der geographischen Gesellschaft in Hamburg unternommenen Expedition gesammelten Reptilien, Amphibien und Fische. Jahrb. Hamburg Wiss. Anst. 1: 1-32.
      Stander, R. I. (2023). The Reptiles of the Limpopo Province and Kruger National Park. Herp Nomad, Polokwane, South Africa, 367 Pp.
      Schleicher, & Alfred. (2020). Reptiles of Namibia. Kuiseb Publishers, Windhoek, Namibia, 271 Pp.
      Buruwate, T. C., & Lloyd-Jones, D. J. (2024). Amphibian and Reptile Diversity of Niassa Special Reserve, Northern Mozambique. Journal of East African Natural History, 113(1), 1-18.
      Pienaar, & Uys de Villiers. (1978). The Reptile Fauna of the Kruger National Park. Pretoria: National Parks Board of South Africa, I-Vii, 222 S.
      Wüster, Wolfgang; Steven Crookes, Ivan Ineich, Youssouph Mané, Catharine E. Pook, Jean-Francois Trape, Donald G. Broadley. (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: 437–453.
      Branch, W. R. (1981). The venomous snakes of southern Africa 2. Elapidae and Hydrophidae. Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 17 (1): 1-47.

      Citation

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