Common Name: Monocellate cobra
Odia Name: ତମ୍ପ
Zoological Name: Naja kaouthia
Family: Elapidae
WL(P)A – Schedule – II
Scales smooth, glossy. Head broad. Colour, pattern, and hood mark variable. Shades of brown, yellow, grey or black, uniform or with ragged yellowish cross-bands. An eye-shaped or “O” shaped hood mark almost always present (sometimes faint, rarely broken up). Hood rounder and smaller than that of Spectacled Cobra.
Look-alikes: Some spectacled cobras
IFSC Code:
BARB0SABHUB
Name:
Snake Helpline
Account Number:
24280100011242
Bank:
Bank of Baroda
Branch:
Samantarapur Branch, Bhubaneswar, Odisha