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==Other snakes known as "cobras"== While the members of the genus ''Naja'' constitute the true cobras, the name ''cobra'' is also applied to these other genera and species: * The [[rinkhals]], ringhals or ring-necked spitting cobra (''Hemachatus haemachatus'') so-called for its neck band as well as its habit of rearing upwards and producing a hood when threatened<ref name="BücherlBuckley2013">{{cite book|author1=Wolfgang Bücherl|author2=Eleanor E. Buckley|author3=Venancio Deulofeu|title=Venomous Animals and Their Venoms: Venomous Vertebrates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dCzLBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA492|date=17 September 2013|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-1-4832-6363-2|page=492}}</ref> * The [[king cobra]] or hamadryad (''Ophiophagus hannah'')<ref name="Surgery2013">{{cite book|author=United States. Department of the Navy. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery|title=Venomous Snakes of the World: A Manual for Use by U. S. Amphibious Forces|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zQlECgAAQBAJ&pg=PA217|year=2013|publisher=Skyhorse|isbn=978-1-62087-623-7|page=217}}</ref> * The two species of tree cobras, Goldie's tree cobra (''[[Pseudohaje goldii]]'') and the black tree cobra (''[[Pseudohaje nigra]]'')<ref name="O'Shea2008">{{cite book|author=Mark O'Shea|title=Venomous Snakes of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_bBz1-v1WUwC&pg=PA74|date=20 February 2008|publisher=New Holland|isbn=978-1-84773-086-2|page=74}}{{Dead link|date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> * The two species of shield-nosed cobras, the Cape coral snake (''[[Aspidelaps lubricus]]'') and the [[shield-nosed cobra]] (''Aspidelaps scutatus'')<ref name="O'Shea2008"/>{{rp|p.76}} * The two species of black desert cobras or desert black snakes, ''[[Walterinnesia aegyptia]]'' and ''Walterinnesia morgani'', neither of which rears upwards and produces a hood when threatened<ref name="O'Shea2008"/>{{rp|p.65}} * The eastern coral snake or American cobra (''[[Micrurus fulvius]]''), which also does not rear upwards and produce a hood when threatened<ref name="O'Shea2008"/>{{rp|p.30}} The false water cobra (''[[Hydrodynastes gigas]]'') is the only "cobra" species that is not a member of the Elapidae. It does not rear upwards, produces only a slight flattening of the neck when threatened, and is only mildly venomous.<ref name="O'Shea2008"/>{{rp|p.53}}
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