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Northern Philippine Cobra

Naja philippinensis

Potentially dangerous

Classification

Family
Elapidae

The Philippine cobra (Naja philippinensis) also called Philippine spitting cobra or northern Philippine cobra, is a stocky, highly venomous species of spitting cobra native to the northern regions of the Philippines. The Philippine cobra is called ulupong in Tagalog, carasaen in Ilocano. Taxonomy Naja philippinensis was described by American herpetologist Edward Harrison Taylor in 1922.

Distribution

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