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The king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is a species complex of snakes endemic to Asia. With an average of 3.18 to 4 m (10.4 to 13.1 ft) and a record length of 5.85 m (19.2 ft), [ 2 ] it is the world's longest venomous snake and among the heaviest.
Ophiophagus bungarus, the Sunda king cobra, is a species of king cobra that inhabits areas south of the Kra Isthmus or land bridge joining the Malay Peninsula with the rest of southeast Asia or Indochina.
Ophiophagus kaalinga is endemic to the Western Ghats in southwestern India, found in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, and parts of Maharashtra.Its range extends from the Ashambu hills near Kanyakumari through various mountain ranges, including the Agasthyamalai and Cardamom hills, reaching elevations of about 100 m to 1800 m above sea level.
Rhynchocephalia is an order of lizard-like reptiles that includes only one living species of tuatara, ... Genus Ophiophagus - king cobra; Genus Oxyuranus - taipan;
Ophiophagus salvatana Gowri Shankar, Das & Wüster, 2024 The Luzon king cobra ( Ophiophagus salvatana ) is a species of king cobra that is endemic to the island of Luzon in northern Philippines .
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There are seven main taxonomic ranks: kingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, genus, and species. In addition, domain (proposed by Carl Woese ) is now widely used as a fundamental rank, although it is not mentioned in any of the nomenclature codes, and is a synonym for dominion ( Latin : dominium ), introduced by Moore in 1974.
King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) Loxocemidae Cope, 1861: Mexican burrowing snakes: Mexican burrowing snake (Loxocemus bicolor) Pythonidae Fitzinger, 1826: Pythons: Indian python (Python molurus) Tropidophiidae Brongersma, 1951: Dwarf boas: Dusky dwarf boa (Tropidophis melanurus) Uropeltidae Müller, 1832: Shield-tailed snakes, short-tailed snakes