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Naja philippinensis Taylor 1922

Creators

  • 1. Herpetology Division, Institute of Biodiversity Science & Sustainibility, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, California 94118 & Research Associate, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
  • 2. Department of Biology and Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, OK 73072 - 7029, USA & Zoology Division, National Museum of the Philippines, Rizal Park, Burgos Ave., Ermita 1000, Manila, Philippines.
  • 3. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045
  • 4. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 & Zoology Division, National Museum of the Philippines, Rizal Park, Burgos Ave., Ermita 1000, Manila, Philippines.

Description

Naja philippinensis Taylor, 1922a

Photo figures 94

Northern Philippine Cobra

Naja tripudians caeca, (part) Bouelnger, 1896:383 (specimen o, from Lepanto, Luzon).

Naja naja philippinensis Taylor, 1922a:265; 1922c:301; 1922d:139.— Leviton, 1965b:539.

Naja philippinensis, Gaulke and Altenbach, 1994:63.— Brown, Ferner, Sison, Gonzales, and Kennedy, 1996:14.— Diesmos, Brown, and Gee, 2004:71.— Brown, Oliveros, Siler, Fernandez, Welton, Buenavente. Diesmos, and Diesmos, 2012:484.— Devan-Song and Brown, 2012:15, fig. 35.— Brown, Siler, Oliveros, Welton, Rock, Swab, Van Weerd, van Beijnen, Jose, Rodriguez, Jose, and Diesmos, 2013:88.— Leviton, Brown, and Siler, 2014:496, figs. 4, 34, 35A–B.— Wallach, Williams, and Boundy, 2014:462.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— Manila, Luzon Id., Philippines. Holotype: Philippine Bureau of Science, Manila; destroyed during WWII. Neotype: (PNM [not confirmed]).

PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION (ENDEMIC) (Map 26C [p. 137]).— Luzon (Prov.: Aurora, Batangas, Benguet, Bulacan, Cavite, Cagayan, Ilocos Norte, Kalinga, Laguna, Nueva Vizcaya, Pampanga, Pangasinan, Quezon, Rizal, Zambales), Marinduque, Masbate, Mindoro.

CONSERVATION STATUS [IUCN].— Near Threatened [2016] ver. 3.1.

Notes

Published as part of Leviton, Alan E., Siler, Cameron D., Weinell, Jeffrey L. & Brown, Rafe M., 2018, Synopsis of the Snakes of the Philippines A Synthesis of Data from Biodiversity Repositories, Field Studies, and the Literature, pp. 399-568 in Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Oxford, England) (Oxford, England) 64 (14) on page 456, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11512589

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Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.11512589 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF8AF3248475FFC6FFA7FFACFFC3FFBA (URL)
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https://www.gbif.org/species/235038003 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/299690/taxon/03B38B5C844CFFFFFFDCFDCAFC96FBD6.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
PNM
Family
Elapidae
Genus
Naja
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Squamata
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Taylor
Species
philippinensis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , neotype
Taxonomic concept label
Naja philippinensis Taylor, 1922 sec. Leviton, Siler, Weinell & Brown, 2018

References

  • TAYLOR, EDWARD H. 1922 a. The Snakes of the Philippine Islands. Bureau of Science, Manila, Philippines. 312 pp., 32 text-figs., 63 tables, 37 pls.
  • TAYLOR, EDWARD H. 1922 c. Additions to the herpetological fauna of the Philippine Islands, II. Philippine Journal of Science 21 (3): 257 - 302.
  • TAYLOR, EDWARD H. 1922 d. Herpetological fauna of Mount Makiling. Philippine Agriculturist 11 (5): 127 - 139.
  • LEVITON, ALAN E. 1965 b [1964]. Contributions to a review of Philippine snakes, VII. The snakes of the genera Naja and Ophiophagus. Philippine Journal of Science 93 (4): 531 - 550.
  • BROWN, RAFE M., JOHN W. FERNER, ROGELIO V. SISON, PEDRO C. GONZALES, AND ROBERT S. KENNEDY. 1996. Amphibians and reptiles of the Zambales Mountains of Luzon Island, Republic of the Philippines. Herpetological Natural History 4 (1): 1 - 22.
  • DIESMOS, A. C., RAFE M. BROWN, AND G. V. A. GEE. 2004. Preliminary report on the amphibians and reptiles of Balbalasang-Balbalan National Park, Luzon Island, Philippines. Sylvatrop, Technical Journal of Philippine Ecosystems and Natural Resources 13: 63 - 80.
  • BROWN, RAFE M., CARL H. OLIVEROS, CAMERON D. SILER, JASON B. FERNANDEZ, LUKE J. WELTON, PERRY ARCHIVAL C. BUENAVENTE, MAE LOWE L. DIESMOS, AND ARVIN C. DIESMOS. 2012. Amphibians and reptiles of Luzon Island (Philippines), VII: Herpetofauna of Ilocos Norte Province, Northern Cordillera Mountain Range. Check List 8 (3): 469 - 490.
  • LEVITON, ALAN E., RAFE M. BROWN, AND CAMERON D. SILER. 2014. The dangerously venomous snakes of the Philippine Archipelago. Pages 473 - 530 in G. C. Williams and T. M. Gosliner, eds., The Coral Triangle: The 2011 Hearst Biodiversity Philippine Expedition. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA.