Home - Taxonomy - Geography - Biodiversity - Literature - Purchase RepFocus Recent updates Related bibliographies: Reptiles Snakes Elapidae [part 1] (terrestrial species) Africa Asia Malay Archipelago Middle East Taxonomy of the genus Naja Biodiversity of the family Elapidae [terrestrial species] Bibliography of the genus Naja (Typical Cobras) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Elapidae) Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted. Naja in general Anonymous. 1925. Tiger killed by a cobra. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 30: 705-706. Anonymous. 1967. Male cobra looks for its dead mate. Loris 11: 124. Ashe, J. 1984. Cobras. Swara 7(3): 15-18. Avadhani, R. 2011. Kobras in der hinduistischen Kultur. Reptilia (D) 16(89): 29-34. Bannerman, W.B. 1905. On the distribution of the varieties of cobra (Naia tripudians) in India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16: 638-643. Bannerman, W.B. 1907. A further note on the distribution of the varieties of cobra in India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 17: 1031-1032. Bannerman, W.B.; Pocha, J.P. 1912. Cobra breeding at Paul. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 21: 1337-1339. Barnard, H.A. 1978. Cobra reminiscences. Loris 14(6): 368-370. Bethencourt-Ferreira, J. 1901. Sôbre a distribução das cobras do gênero 'Naia' em Africa. Journal Sci. Lisb. (2) 6: 129-137. Bharatan, E. 1971. Cobra and monitor lizard. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 68(3): 838-839. Bogert, C.M. 1954. Snakes that spit their venom. Animal Kingdom 57: 66-70. Bouillon, A. 1965. Serpentes danger! Zooleo 2: 1-76. Brien, E.O. 1923. Cobra going down a hole tail foremost. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29: 303. Broadley, D.G. 1966. Notes on the taxonomy and distribution of the African cobras of the genus Naja. Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa 2: 21-29. Broadley, D.G. 1968. A review of the African cobras of the genus Naja (Serpentes: Elapinae). Arnoldia (Rhodesia) 3(29): 1-14. Broadley, D.G.; Wüster, W. 2004. A review of the southern African 'non-spitting' cobras (Serpentes: Elapidae: Naja). African Journal of Herpetology 53(2): 101-122. Brongersma, L.D. 1947. Zoological notes from Port Dickson. 1. Amphibians and reptiles. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 27: 300-308. Cotton, T. 2014. Comments on Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Serpentes, ELAPIDAE): request for confirmation of the availability of the generic name and for the nomenclatural validation of the journal in which it was published (Case 3601). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 71(3): 181-182. Deraniyagala, P.E.P. 1932. Herpetological Notes. Ceylon Journal of Science (B) 17: 44-55. Deraniyagala, P.E.P. 1960. The taxonomy of the cobras of southeastern Asia. Spolia Zeylanica 29: 41-63. Deraniyagala, P.E.P. 1961. The taxonomy of the cobras of south eastern Asia. Part 2. Spolia Zeylanica 29: 205-232. Duckett, J.E. 1987. The common cobra (Naja naja) and its hood markings in Malaysia. Malayan Naturalist 40(3-4): 46-47. Elliot, R.H. 1933. The mongoose and the cobra. Blackwood's 1933: 662. Ferreira, J.B. 1930. Some notes on the habits and peculiarities of the African snakes of the genus Naja, their taxonomic status and geographical distribution. Bulletin of the Antivenin Institute of America 4: 54-57. Fukuyama, T.; Sawai, Y.; Okonogi, T. 1974. Comparative study of necrosis induced by Naja naja naja, Naja n. atra, Naja n. kaouthia and Naja n. philippinensis. The Snake 6(2): 83-85. George, C.P. 1904. A cobra feeding on eggs. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 16: 174. Ghosh, S.K. 1946. Short note about the black cobra. Journal Bengal Nat. Hist. Soc. 20(3): 105-108. Heurn, W.C. van 1931. Herpetologische aanteekeningen. II, IV. De Tropische Natuur 20: 61-63, 205-209. Horton, C.W. 1948. On the mechanics of spitting in the African spitting Cobras. Copeia 1948: 23-26. Hoser, R.T. 2009. A reclassification of the true cobras; species formerly referred to the genera Naja, Boulengerina and Paranaja. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 7: 1-15. Hoser, R.T. 2012. Exposing a fraud! Afronaja Wallach, Wüster and Broadley 2009, is a junior synonym of Spracklandus Hoser 2009. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 2012(9): 1-64. Hoser, R.T. 2013. Case 3601. Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Serpentes, Elapidae): request for confirmation of the availability of the generic name and for the nomenclatural validation of the journal in which it was published. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 70(4): 234-237. Hoser, R.T. 2013. Two new species of true cobra in the genus Boulengeria Dollo, 1886 from West Africa and South Africa (Serpentes: Elapidae). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 20: 3-7. Hoser, R.T. 2015. Comment on Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Serpentes, Elapidae): request for confirmation of the availability of the generic name and for the nomenclatural validation of the journal in which it was published (Case 3601). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 72(1): 61-64. Kaiser, H. 2014. Comments on Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Serpentes, Elapidae): request for confirmation of the availability of the generic name and for the nomenclatural validation of the journal in which it was published. (Case 3601). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 71(1): 30-35. Khan, M.S. 1984. A cobra with an unusual hood pattern. The Snake 16(2): 131-134. Lauraine, P. 1931. The snake charming sisters of Holy Popa: women as hereditary handlers of cobras. Ill. London News Oct. 3: 528-529. Laurent, R.F. 1973. Le concept de sous-espèce et la variation géographique chez Naja melanoleuca et Naja nigricollis (Reptilia, Ophidia). Revue de Zoologie et Botanique Africaine (Bruxelles) 87(1): 198-204. Leviton, A.E. 1964. Contribution to a review of Philippine snakes. 7. The snakes of the genera Naja and Ophiophagus. Philippine Journal of Science 93: 531-550. Loveridge, A. 1944. Further revisions of African snake genera. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard 95: 121-247. Nutphand, W. 1986. Cobra. Thai Zoological Center, Bangkok. Booklet no. 1(12). 15 pp. Perret, J.L. 1960. Une nouvelle et remarkable espèce d'Atractaspis (Viperidae) et quelques autres serpents d'Afrique. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 67(5): 129-139. Rhodin, A.G.J.; Kaiser, H.; Dijk, P.P. van; Wüster, W.; O'Shea, M.; Auliya, M. & al. 2015. Comment on Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Serpentes, Elapidae): request for confirmation of the availability of the generic name and for the nomenclatural validation of the journal in which it was published (Case 3601). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 72(1): 65-78. Roman, B. 1973. Une collection de serpents peu commune. Notes et Documents Voltaiques 6(2): 36-58. Shine, R.; Branch, W.R.; Webb, J.K.; Harlow, P.S.; Shine, T.; Keogh, J.S. 2007. Ecology of cobras from southern Africa. Journal of Zoology (London) 272(2): 183-193. Smith, M.A. 1946. Cobras and king cobras. Zoo Life 1: 39-42. Stejneger, L.H. 1936. Types of the amphibian and reptilian genera proposed by Laurenti in 1768. Copeia 1936(3): 133-141. Stumpel, A.H.P. 1981. Water snake (Xenochrophis piscator) imitates cobra. (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae). Salamandra 17(3-4): 203-204. Szyndlar, Z. 1992. Osteology of African cobras: preliminary observations. pp. 425-428. In: Korsos, Z. & Kiss, I. (eds.): Proceedings of the 6th Ordinary General Meeting of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica, 19-23 August 1991, Budapest, Hungary. Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. 531 pp. Szyndlar, Z.; Rage, J.C. 1990. West Palearctic cobras of the genus Naja (Serpentes: Elapidae): interrelationships among extinct and extant species. Amphibia-Reptilia 11(4): 385-400. Thomson, S. 2014. Comment on Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Serpentes, Elapidae): request for confirmation of the availability of the generic name and for the nomenclatural validation of the journal in which it was published. (Case 3601). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 71(2): 133-135. Tscherbakoff, S.G. 1935. Feeding of cobras in captivity. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 38: 321-329. Vijayaraghavan, B. 2005. Are there spitting cobras in India? Cobra (Chennai) 61: 1-5. Vozenilek, P. 1976. [Spitting cobras]. (In Czech). Ziva 24(1): 28-29. Wallach, V.; Wüster, W.; Broadley, D.G. 2009. In praise of subgenera: taxonomic status of cobras of the genus Naja Laurenti (Serpentes: Elapidae). Zootaxa 2236: 26-36. Werner, Y.L. 1999. Does the cobra obey the snake charmer's flute? Hamadryad 24(1): 23-28. Whitaker, R. 1969. Defanged cobras, how they survive. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 66: 632-634. Whitaker, R.; Whitaker, S. 2012. Venom, antivenom production and the medically important snakes of India. Current Science (Bangalore) 103(6): 635-643. Wilks, A. 2017. Pick your poison. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 52(7): 118-121 Woods, D.H. 1958. Cobra enters hole backwards. African Wild Life 12: 77. Wüster, W. 1992. Cobras and other herps in Southeast Asia. British Herpetological Society Bulletin 39: 19-25. Wüster, W. 1996. Taxonomic changes and toxinology: systematic revisions of the asiatic cobras (Naja naja species complex). Toxicon 34(4): 399-406. Wüster, W. 2002. The cobras of the genus Naja in India. pp. 98-133. In: Sharma, B.D. (ed.). Indian poisonous snakes: an ecological and clinical study. 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