10 . 10   Naja kaouthia  -  Monocellate Cobra, Monocled Cobra

1 . 2   Normal  (& het Albino)

CB'08 Male Het Albino

KaoN-001-08-M

CB'08 Female Het Albino

KaoN-002-08-F

CB Young AD Female

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          This CB'08 male and female were picked up in a trade on 11/19/08.  Growing like weeds and eating Frozen Thawed.  These have the normal color and monocle hood markings.  One parent of these was supposedly an albino, making these heterozygous for Albino.  I believe the word "kaouthia" is pronounced "Kee o tee ah".  If I'm wrong, please correct me.  

1 . 1     Albino Morph

AD Male Albino

KaoA-001-AD-M

CB'07 Albino Female

KaoA-002-07-F

          The first male is a 4'+ adult, and was picked up on 04/26/08.  The CB'07 female was acquired on 05/02/08.  Probably the most commonly kept and bred specie and morph of Cobra in the world.  We actually see more Albino Monocled Cobras on the market than normal Monocled Cobras.

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1 . 0     Blizzard Morph

CB'08 Blizzard Male

KaoB-001-08-M

          I purchased this male in June 2010.  He was a little small for a 2 year old, but looking good, and hammering frozen thawed large mice.  This is a beautiful specimen.  White as snow with red eyes.

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2 . 0    Formosa Type Markings

AD Male Formosa

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CB'10

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          This adult male is a Monocled Cobra with the Formosa Island Cobra hood markings.  Many Formosa morph Monocled Cobras (Naja kaouthia) are being advertised as Formosa Island Cobras (Naja atra).  Do the scale counts and be sure of what your buying.

          The CB'10 male is a holdback from the Possible Double Het breeding above. 

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1 . 2     Leucistic Morph

CB'10 Female

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          I purchased this female on 07/11/11 from a friend, after selling my pair from the same clutch to some friends in Europe.

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4 . 3     Sunset Morph (Including Hets, Banded, Super Suns, and Lavenders )

CB'05 Female Het. Sunset

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CB'09 Female Poss Het. Sunset  

KaoSsH-003-09-F

CB'09 Male Banded Sunset

KaoSs-003-09-M

CB'09 Female Super Sunset

KaoSs-004-09-F

CB'10 Male Lavender Sunset

KaoSs-005-10-M

CB'11 Male Sunset

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          The CB'05 female hatched out on 02/22/05, and I acquired her on 11/20/05.  This is a Monocled Cobra with an aberrant hood marking similar to that of the Formosa Island Cobra (N. atra).  They are not a N. kaouthia x N. atra cross.  This female has proven to be het for the Sunset Morph.

          The second specimen is 66% Possible het Sunset.  I'm told there are 4 different Sunset morphs.  She is possibly het for all the Monocled line Sunset morphs.  She seems to show the markers for being het for something, but we don't yet know what Sunset morphs she may be het for.

          The Banded male and Super Sunset female, are each "one-of-a-kind" or "two of a kind" Sunsets.  These will be bred together one day and could possibly throw something else that is different from themselves.

          The Male Lavender Sunset was picked up in a trade with a friend.  Not sure how he will look as an adult, but some of the lavender shown in the photo has faded a little.  You can still see it, but it has faded.

          The CB'11 male Sunset is one of 3 Sunsets produced by the 05 female and 06 male Het Sunsets.

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2 . 3     Suphan Morph

CB'05 Male

KaoS-001-05-M

CB'07 Female

KaoS-002-07-F

CB'06 Female

KaoS-003-06-F

CB'10 Male

KaoS-004-10-M

CB'10 Female

KaoS-005-10-F

          The first male is the first Suphan specimen I've ever kept.  I bought him from a vendor at the Fall 2008 Columbia, SC show.  The word "Suphan", is pronounced Soo-Pan, and comes from the Central Thailand Province of Suphan Buri, sometimes written as Suphanburi, where this morph can be found.  It can also be found in Ayuthaya, Ang Tong, and Ratchaburi Provinces.  The Suphan Cobra is not a sub-specie, but a color variant of Naja kaouthia.

          I picked up the CB'07 female from a friend on 03/29/09.  She is eating frozen thawed.

          I got the CB'06 female on 04/09/09 from a friend.  This female was bred to the '05 male and produced the pair of 2010's.

          The 2010 hatchlings were fairly easy to get going, and they are doing great and eating frozen thawed.

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Some of the information on this page may have been copied from the publications below.

WCH Clinical Toxinology Resources

The University of Adelaide, Australia

http://www.toxinology.com/

The Snakes of Thailand and Their Husbandry by Merel J. Cox

Handbook To The Dangerously Venomous Snakes Of Myanmar

by

Alan E. Leviton, George R. Zug, Jens V. Vindum, and Guinevere O.U. Wogan

Venomous Snakes

Snakes in the Terrarium

by Ludwig Trutnau

Links below copied from the website of Wolfgang Wüster

http://www.bangor.ac.uk/~bss166/Taxa/AsNaja.htm

SLOWINSKI, J.B. & W. WÜSTER (2000) A new cobra (Elapidae: Naja) from Myanmar (Burma). Herpetologica, 56(2): 257-270. pdf

WÜSTER, W. (1992) A century of confusion: Asiatic cobras revisited. The Vivarium, 4: 14-18. pdf

WÜSTER, W. (1996) Taxonomic changes and toxinology: systematic revisions of the Asiatic cobras (Naja naja species complex). Toxicon, 34(4): 399-406.  pdf

WÜSTER, W. (1998) The cobras of the genus Naja in India. Hamadryad, 23(1): 15-32. pdf

WÜSTER, W. & R.S. THORPE (1989) Population affinities of the Asiatic cobra (Naja naja) species complex in south-east Asia: reliability and random resampling. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 36: 391-409. pdf

WÜSTER, W. & R.S. THORPE (1991) Asiatic cobras: systematics and snakebite. Experientia, 47: 205-209. pdf

WÜSTER, W. & R.S. THORPE (1992) Asiatic cobras: population systematics of the Naja naja species complex (Serpentes: Elapidae) in India and Central Asia. Herpetologica, 48(1): 69-85. pdf

WÜSTER, W. & R.S. THORPE (1994) Naja siamensis, a cryptic species of venomous snake revealed by mtDNA sequencing. Experientia, 50: 75-79. pdf

WÜSTER, W., R.S. THORPE, M.J. COX, P. JINTAKUNE & J. NABHITABHATA (1995) Population systematics of the snake genus Naja (Reptilia: Serpentes: Elapidae) in Indochina: multivariate morphometrics and comparative mitochondrial DNA sequencing (cytochrome oxidase I). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 8: 493-510. pdf

WÜSTER, W., D.A. WARRELL, M.J. COX, P. JINTAKUNE & J. NABHITABHATA (1997) Redescription of Naja siamensis Laurenti, 1768 (Serpentes: Elapidae), a widely overlooked spitting cobra from Southeast Asia: geographic variation, medical importance and designation of a neotype. Journal of Zoology, 243: 771-788. pdf

More Interesting Papers

LAWAN CHANHOME, DVM; PIBOON JINTAKUNE, MSc; HENRY WILDE, MD,FACP; MEREL J. COX, MS (2001)  Venomous snake husbandry in Thailand (Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, 12, 17-23 (2001) pdf