Monocled Cobra (Naja kaouthia) | Snake | Wildkeeda

Monocled Cobra (Naja kaouthia) | Snake | Wildkeeda

Monocled Cobra

Naja kaouthia

VENOMOUS.

At hatching 200-350mm (8-14in) Adults 1000mm (39in) Maximum 2300mm (91in)

Description

Scales smooth, glossy. Head broad. Color, pattern, and hood mark variable. Shades of brown, yellow, gray or black, uniform or with ragged yellowish cross-bands (specially in West Bengal and the Gangetic Plain). An eye-shaped hood mark almost always present (sometimes faint, rarely broken up). Hood rounder and smaller than that of Spectacled Cobra. Throat pale, followed by a mottled, then dark area. Scales under tail often dark-edged. Juveniles from Bengal and Assam are black and "monocled". With age, the black fades to olive or brown.

Sealation 

Usually more than one cuneate scale on each side. Front facing short, practically square, a lot more limited than its separation from the rostral. Scales smooth. Guys. Scales in 26-34 columns (at tenth ventral): 19-23 (at 20% and 40% of ventrals): 17-21 (at 60% of ventrals): 14-17 (at 80% of ventrals): 14-19 (at vent). Ventrals 170-192; subcaudals 48-61. combined. Females. Scales in 24-33 columns (at tenth ventral): 19-23 (at 20% and 40% of ventrals): 17-21 (at 60% of ventrals): 15-17 (at 80% of ventrals): 15-18 (at vent). Ventrals 178-197: subcaudals 46-59. matched. 

Behavior 

For the most part nighttime: dynamic at nightfall and first light. Occupies wetter zones than the Spectacled Cobra; in certain areas like the Sunderbans is semi-sea-going. Normal in rice developing regions and estates. Feeds on fishes, little snakes, frogs and rodents. Lays 8-18 eggs in January-March. Females by and large stay with eggs until they incubate. Quick and caution. At the point when compromised, will raise forebody, murmur uproariously and strike enthusiastically. Teeth to some degree adjusted for spitting, however records of them doing so are uncommon. This is a medicinally significant snake. In India, polyvalent neutralizer serum (however not explicitly created for this species) is viable against nibbles. 

Distribution

India: North and eastern India from Haryana (Sonipat). a large portion of the Gangetic Plain, Uttar Pradesh. West Bengal, Orissa, Sikkim, Assam to Arunachal Pradesh, Records from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar need affirmation. Additionally Bangladesh, Nepal, China, the greater part of Southeast Asia to Peninsular Malaysia 

Copies 

Different cobras. 

False Cobra.