Endangered
Andaman cobra
Naja sagittifera
The Andaman cobra or Andaman spitting cobra is a cobra endemic to the Andaman Islands of India.
Appearance
Head black, with pale white patches on shields. Juveniles are glossy black above with a series of narrow, white, irregular cross-bars on body and tail, that show 'A' shape marks when seen from the side. There is a distinct white monocle mark, with black centre.
The Andaman cobra is medium to large sized snake in length, is a heavy bodied snake with long cervical ribs capable of expansion to form a hood when threatened, it may also spit its venom into the eyes, although not as accurately as the true spitting cobras. The average length of these snakes is about 0.9 metres (3.0 ft), but they can grow to about 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) regularly, although the longest specimen found measured 1.8 metres (5.9 ft).
Range and habitat
This species is endemic to Andaman and Little Andaman Islands. The Andaman cobra or Andaman spitting cobra is a cobra endemic to the Andaman Islands of India. The name of this cobra comes from the Islands itself.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Andaman cobra is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Andaman cobra, Wikidata item Q2712316. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
