🐍Indian cobra
De brilslang (Naja naja), ook wel Indische cobra, is een giftige slang uit de familie koraalslangachtigen (Elapidae), dezelfde familie als de mamba’s en koraalslangen. Ze staat op de derde plaats van de Grote Vier (slangen), de vier giftigste slangensoorten op het Indiase subcontinent (voornamelijk in India en Sri Lanka).
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- 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
Everything we know about the Indian cobra
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass1.68 kgmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length2.2 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan32 yearsrecord 32 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
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DietCarnivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCathemeralReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousYesReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Snout–vent length1.57 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l1.7 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 Indian 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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