gaboon69 wrote:BV,so you saying a king cobra is not a true cobra?Thats really interesting.
I know their not naja,but what is the argument then?
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hi gaboon,
sure, kingcobras are cobras to. the term "true cobras" only pointed to the genus Naja. in our case, its always a bit complicated. if you do research in the field and you get only very few informations like "on this particular island live 2 cobra species", what does it said? nothing, if one of this 2 the kingcobra. the systematics of philippine reptiles is still very complicated and in most cases pretty unknown. it just helps, especially if peoples dont use scientific names. thats all.
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