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Burmese Spitting Cobra

Naja mandalayensis

Potentially dangerous

Classification

Family
Elapidae

The Mandalay spitting cobra (Naja mandalayensis), also called the Burmese spitting cobra or Mandalay cobra, is a species of spitting cobra endemic to the Dry Zone in central Myanmar. Etymology Naja mandalayensis was first described by herpetologists Wolfgang Wüster and Joseph Bruno Slowinski in 2000. The generic name naja is a Latinisation of the Sanskrit word nāgá (नाग) meaning "cobra".

Distribution

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