
The Caspian cobra (Naja oxiana), also called the Persian cobra or Russian cobra, is a species of highly venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is endemic to Central Asia. First described by Karl Eichwald, a German physician, in 1831, it was for many years considered to be a subspecies of the Naja naja until genetic analysis revealed it to be a distinct species.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).