🐍Egyptian cobra
קוברה מצרית (שם מדעי: Naja haje), ידוע גם בשם "أورايوس" ערבית מצרית מבטאים: Ouraeus (נגזר מהמילה היוונית עתיקה: οὐραῖος) הוא מין נחש ממשפחת הפתניים המצוי באזורים חצי-מדבריים לאורך אפריקה. עקב תפוצתה הצפונית היא נמצאת גם במצרים, בה נחשבה לסמל תרבותי ודתי ומכאן שמה. הקוברה קטלנית ביותר לאדם ובשנים האחרונות חל גידול בתקריות בינה לאדם, עקב כניסה ליישובים אנושיים, בהם שורצים במכרסמים.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- 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
Everything we know about the Egyptian cobra
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass6.8 kgrecord 2.52 kg · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Body length2.6 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan22 yearsrecord 22 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Activity cycleCathemeralReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
VenomousYesReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Volume l6.8 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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.
Family tree
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- genusNaja
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- genusNaja
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