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Egyptian cobra🐍

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SpeciesElapidae
Reptiles

🐍Egyptian cobra

Naja haje (Linnaeus, 1758)

La cobra egipcia (Naja haje), también conocido como "Auraeus" en árabe egipcio pronunciado: Ouraeus (derivado de la palabra griega antigua: οὐραῖος) o áspid de Cleopatra es una especie de saurópsido escamado de la familia Elapidae. Habita en África del Norte.

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≈ 1/9th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
6.8 kg
Body length
2.6 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
22 years
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Everything we know about the Egyptian cobra

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
6.8 kgrecord 2.52 kg · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
2.6 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
22 yearsrecord 22 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Activity cycle
Cathemeral
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
Yes
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
6.8 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Egyptian cobra yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyElapidae
  5. ›genusNaja
  6. ›speciesNaja haje
Full lineage
  1. superorderLepidosauria
  2. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  3. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  4. genusNaja
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  12. genusNaja
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In other languages
Kobra egipska (pl), קוברה מצרית (he), Cobra égyptien (fr), Naja haje (es), egyiptomi kobra (hu), Naja haje (it) … and 24 more languages
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