Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Elapidae > Naja > Naja oxianaNaja oxiana (Central Asian Cobra)Synonyms: Naja naja oxiana; Naja tripudians var. caeca (heterotypic); Tomyris oxiana The Caspian cobra (Naja oxiana), also called the Central Asian cobra, Oxus cobra or Russian cobra, a member of the family Elapidae found in Central Asia. |
| Gestation [1] | 60 days | | Litter Size [1] | 13 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 32 years | | Venomous [2] | Yes |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe |
Kazahkstan, Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan |
Palearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert |
Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Tajikistan |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests |
Iran, Azerbaijan |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Caspian lowland desert |
Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Central Asian riparian woodlands |
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Central Asian southern desert |
Turkmenistan stretching, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Gissaro-Alai open woodlands |
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan |
Palearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Hindu Kush alpine meadow |
Afghanistan, Pakistan |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe |
Pakistan, China, Afghanistan, India |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Kopet Dag semi-desert |
Iran, Turkmenistan |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe |
Iran, Turkmenistan |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Kuh Rud and Eastern Iran montane woodlands |
Iran |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Pamir alpine desert and tundra |
China, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Paropamisus xeric woodlands |
Afghanistan |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Registan-North Pakistan sandy desert |
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Sulaiman Range alpine meadows |
Afghanistan, Pakistan |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Caucasus |
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Turkey |
No |
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Irano-Anatolian |
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Turkmenistan |
No |
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Mountains of Central Asia |
Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan |
No |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Venomous snakes and antivenoms search interface, World Health Organization ♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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