Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: October 31st, 2023.
 
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Genus
Hemachatus
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Ring-necked Spitting Cobras
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Ringhalskobras, Südafrikanische Speikobras
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Ringhalskobraer
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1820 |  |
Sepedon Merrem [not Sepedon Latreille 1804 (Diptera)] (type species: Coluber haemachates Bonnaterre 1790) |
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1822 | |
Hemachatus Fleming (type species: Sepedon haemachates Bonnaterre 1790) |
Contents:
2 species, of which 1 (50.0%) is endemic.
Endemism: 0%  100%
Distribution:
Eswatini,
Lesotho,
South Africa
(Eastern Cape,
Free State,
Gauteng,
KwaZulu-Natal,
Limpopo,
Mpumalanga,
North West Province,
Northern Cape,
Western Cape),
Zimbabwe.
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Hemachatus haemachates
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Southern Ring-necked Spitting Cobra, Southern Rinkhals
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Südliche Ringhalskobra, Südafrikanische Speikobra
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Sydlig Ringhalskobra
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1790 | |
Coluber haemachates Bonnaterre |
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Vipera haemachates Latreille 1801 |
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Sepedon haemachates Merrem 1820 |
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Naja haemachates Schlegel 1837 |
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Aspidelaps haemachates Jan 1859 |
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Sipedon haemachates Lockington 1886 |
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Hemachatus haemachatus Stejneger 1936 |
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1790 | |
Coluber hikkanella Bonnaterre (Wallach, Williams & Boundy 2014) |
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1822 | |
Hemachatus vulgaris Fleming (Wallach, Williams & Boundy 2014) |
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1826 | |
Naia capensis Smith (Wallach, Williams & Boundy 2014) |
Remarks:
Previously included the population now assigned to nyangensis.
Authorship previously attributed to Lacepede 1789, but this work has been rejected
(International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1987): Opinion 1463; David & Ineich 1999).
Specific epithet has mostly been spelled haemachatus (since Stejneger 1936), but Bonnaterre's (1790) original spelling was haemachates.
Distribution:
Eswatini,
Lesotho,
South Africa
(Eastern Cape,
Free State,
Gauteng,
KwaZulu-Natal,
Limpopo,
Mpumalanga,
North West Province,
Northern Cape,
Western Cape).
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Hemachatus haemachates
© Rune Midtgaard
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Hemachatus nyangensis
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Nyanga Ring-necked Spitting Cobra, Nyanga Rinkhals
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Nyanga-Ringhalskobra, Nyanga-Speikobra
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Nyanga-ringhalskobra
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2023 | |
Hemachatus nyangensis Reissig, Major, Renk, Barlow, Paijmans, Morris, Hofreiter, Broadley & Wüster in Major, Renk, Reissig, Paijmans, Morris, Hofreiter, Barlow, Broadley & Wüster |
Remarks:
Previously regarded as the Zimbabwean population of haemachates.
Distribution:
Zimbabwe.
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