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SpeciesElapidae
Reptiles

🐍Indian cobra

Naja naja (Linnaeus, 1758)

인도코브라(Indian cobra)는 흔히 아시아코브라(Asian cobra)라고도 알려져 있으며, 코브라과에 속하는 독사의 일종이다. 이 종은 인도 아대륙이 원산지이며 인도에서 가장 많은 뱀에 물린 사례를 일으키는 "사대독사" 종에 속한다. 이 코브라는 단형 속 킹코브라속에 속하는 킹코브라와는 다르다. 인도코브라는 인도 신화와 문화에서 숭배되며 뱀의 매력적인 모습을 자주 볼 수 있다.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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≈ 1/37th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
1.68 kg
Body length
2.2 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
32 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Indian cobra

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

Body mass
1.68 kgmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

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

Maximum lifespan
32 yearsrecord 32 years · ReptTraits
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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

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

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

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

Snout–vent length
1.57 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
1.7 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 Indian cobra yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyElapidae
  5. ›genusNaja
  6. ›speciesNaja naja
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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Очковая змея (ru), ناشر هندي (ar), Kobra indyjska (pl), Cobra indien (fr), קוברה הודית (he), Naja naja (es) … and 24 more languages
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