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1 Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhavan, New Alipore, Kolkata-700 053, IN
2 Kudmura Range, Korba Forest Division, Chhattisgarh Forest Department, Chhattisgarh-495 674, IN
Source
Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology, Vol 114, No 3 (2014), Pagination: 519-521
Abstract
The King Cobra, Ophiophagus hannah (Cantor) is rare, but, widespread throughout South and Southeast Asia. It is reported from Bali, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, India, Java, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Sulawesi, Sumatra and Thailand (Iskandar and Colijn, 2002). In India, it has a patchy distribution covering the Western Ghats, Shiwalik and Terai regions of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal, North-east India and the Andaman Islands (Das, 2002; Whittaker and Captain, 2004) (Fig. 1).
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