Indian Cobra

Indian Cobra (Naja naja) or Spectacled Cobra is a species of the genus Naja found in the Indian subcontinent and a member of the "big four", the four species which inflict the most snakebites in India. This snake is revered in Indian mythology and culture, and is often seen with snake charmers.

Indian Cobra
Naja naja with hood spread open
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Elapidae
Genus:	Naja
Species:	N. naja
Binomial name
Naja naja (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Coluber naja Linnaeus, 1758 Naja fasciata Laurenti, 1768 Vipera naja Daudin, 1803 Naja tripudians Gray, 1834 Naia tripudians Boulenger, 1896

Indian Cobra Media

• Resting, at the Bronx Zoo.

• Spectacled cobra showing their hood

• A 6.5 ft cobra captured in a village in Odisha

• Indian Cobra (Naja naja) 2 (cropped).jpg

  Closeup when resting. Bronx Zoo.

• Indian spectacled cobra - Flickr - Scorius.jpg

  Indian spectacled cobra

• Common Rat Snake (Ptyas mucosa) 水律6.jpg

  Note the patterning on the body of this oriental rat snake. Indian cobras don't have this patterning.

• Natuurwonderen African chamaeleon and Indian cobra - Raymond L. Ditmars? - 1915 - EYE FLM45528 - OB 685418.ogv

  Silent film showing an African chameleon and an Indian cobra by Raymond L. Ditmars (?) Collection EYE Film Institute Netherlands.

• Naja naja 107288826.jpg

  Eating an Asian common toad

• Spectacled Cobra with hood lowered in a bamboo shrub.jpg

  Spectacled cobra with hood lowered in a bamboo shrub