<P> Differences from other spitting cobras were realized in the 1960s , but N. ashei was initially regarded by most merely as a brown - coloured form of the black - necked spitting cobra ( N. nigricollis ) . Thus , N. ashei was only classified as a distinct species in 2007 , by Wolfgang Wüster ( Bangor University , Wales ) and Donald Broadley ( Biodiversity Foundation for Africa ) . Royjan Taylor ( Director of the Bio-Ken Snake Farm in Watamu , Kenya ) was instrumental in providing specimens , among them the holotype . The specific epithet honors the late James Ashe , who founded the Bio-Ken Snake Farm and was one of the first experts to suggest N. ashei was a new species . </P>
<P> Differences from other spitting cobras were realized in the 1960s , but N. ashei was initially regarded by most merely as a brown - coloured form of the black - necked spitting cobra ( N. nigricollis ) . Thus , N. ashei was only classified as a distinct species in 2007 , by Wolfgang Wüster ( Bangor University , Wales ) and Donald Broadley ( Biodiversity Foundation for Africa ) . Royjan Taylor ( Director of the Bio-Ken Snake Farm in Watamu , Kenya ) was instrumental in providing specimens , among them the holotype . The specific epithet honors the late James Ashe , who founded the Bio-Ken Snake Farm and was one of the first experts to suggest N. ashei was a new species . </P>
when was the new giant species of spitting cobra found in kenya
when was the new giant species of spitting cobra found in kenya
2007
2007