red spitting cobra

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Red spitting cobra / Naja pallida Royalty Free Stock Photo

Taxonomic ranks-red spitting cobra Royalty Free Stock Photo

Red Spitting Cobra lying in sand Royalty Free Stock Photo

Postage stamp Tanzania, 1996. Red Spitting Cobra Naja pallida snake Royalty Free Stock Photo

The Red Spitting Cobra (Naja pallida), is a species of spitting cobras native to Africa. They can spit venom up to 2m through tiny apertures in the fangs. They can grow from 70 to 121 cm (2ÃÂ½-4 ft) in length and can vary in colour from red to gray. The juveniles are easily recognised by having a dark black throat band.They are oviparous, laying up to 15 eggs in a burrow or in rotting vegetation. They are common in northeast Africa, (Nile valley, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia). They eat a wide range of vertebrates including frogs. It is a terrestrial snake, and nocturnal. The venom can cause a lot of pain but rarely death. This species was formerly considered to be a subspecies, Naja mossambica pallida, of Naja mossambica, but is now categorized as a separate species [1].