FIGURE 3. ZMB 2796 in On the importance of types and the perils of "en passant" taxonomy: a brief history of the typification of Coluber naja Linnaeus, 1758 (Serpentes: Elapidae) and its implications, with the designation of a lectotype

FIGURE 3. ZMB 2796, here designated as lectotype of Coluber naja Linnaeus, 1758, also the holotype of Naja brasiliensis Laurenti, 1768. (A) Hood mark with additional small ocelli, as shown in Seba (1735, Pl. 89, fig. 4), indicated by arrows. (B) Underside of animal, arrows indicate multiple dark crossbands characteristic of Sri Lankan Naja naja. (C) Side view of head, arrow indicates the single cuneate scale. (D) Table 89, fig. 4 in Seba (1735), referenced by Linnaeus (1758) in his description of Coluber naja and Laurenti (1768) in his description of Naja brasiliensis.