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SpeciesElapidae
Reptiles

🐍Indian cobra

Naja naja (Linnaeus, 1758)

印度眼鏡蛇（學名：Naja naja）又称“膨颈蛇”，是眼鏡蛇科眼鏡蛇屬的一種蛇，亦是眼鏡蛇屬中的重要代表種。印度眼鏡蛇是印度四大毒蛇之一，主要分布於印度次大陸，因此得名。此蛇種及整個眼鏡蛇屬的學名關鍵詞「Naja」，語源來自印度教中的蛇神「那伽」。

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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
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

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

Snout–vent length
1.57 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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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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