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    Species Accepted

    Hemachatus haemachatus (Bonnaterre, 1790)

    Ring-necked Spitting Cobra
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Hemachatus
    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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      21 results
      Ring-necked Spitting Cobra English
      Ringhals English
      Ringhalscobra Dutch
      Ringhalskobra German
      Ringnekspoegkobra Afrikaans
      Rinkhals English
      Rinkhalskobra German
      Southern Rinkhals English
      Sputatore del Sudafrica Italian
      Sépédon hémachate French

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      50 results
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      Alexander, G.J., D. Mitchell & S.A. Hanrahan. (1999). Wide Thermal Tolerance in the African Elapid, Hemachatus haemachatus. Journal of Herpetology 33 (1): 164-167.
      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.
      ICZN. (2005). OPINION 2104 (Case 3226). Lacepède, B.G.É. de la V., 1788, Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupèdes Ovipares: rejected as a non-binominal work. Bull. Zool. Nomenclature 62 (1): 55.
      Stander, R. I. (2023). The Reptiles of the Limpopo Province and Kruger National Park. Herp Nomad, Polokwane, South Africa, 367 Pp.
      Hallermann, J. (2006). Die von LACEPÈDE (1756 - 1825) in die Herpetologie eingeführten Taxa und ihr Schicksal. Sekretär 6 (2): 26-29.
      Bates, Michael F. & Cora S. Stobie. (2021). Current-day distribution of the rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus) in central South Africa and Lesotho: An evaluation based mainly on photographic and videographic records from social media. African Journal of Herpetology 0(0): 1–7.
      Branch, W. R. (1981). The venomous snakes of southern Africa 2. Elapidae and Hydrophidae. Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 17 (1): 1-47.
      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.
      Ditmars, Raymond L. (1911). Reptiles of all lands. National Geographic 22(7): 601-633.

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