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Parent: | Ophiophagus Günther, 1864 | |
Specific Name: | kaalinga | |
Authorship: | Gowri Shankar, Das & Ganesh in Das, Gowri Shankar, Swamy, Williams, Lalremsanga, Prashanth, Sahoo, Vijayakumar, Höglund, Shanker, Dutta, Ganesh & Wüster | |
Publication: | Taxonomic revision of the king cobra Ophiophagus hannah (Cantor, 1836) species complex (Reptilia: Serpentes: Elapidae), with the description of two new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 961(1): 1–51. | |
Page: | 24 | |
Figure(s): | Figs 8, 9G–I, 10C, 11C, 14 | |
Type Specimen(s): | holotype ♂ (BNHS 3655) and one paratype (BNHS 2280) housed at the Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India; one paratype ♀ (ZSIC (ex-MCBT 152882) at the Zoological Survey of India, Chennai, India; one paratype (BMNH 61.12.30.83) at the The Natural History Museum, London, UK; one paratype (MCBT 152884) at the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, Vadanemmeli, India; and one paratype (ANSP 35312) at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, USA | |
Type Locality: | INDIA • Karnataka State, Shivamogga District, Agumbe; 13.57° N, 75.10° E; 21 Apr. 2021; P. Gowri Shankar leg. | |
Fossil: | No | |