Cobra na sarki ya bayyana kuma ya zana shi ne daga masanin ilimin halitta na Danish Theodore Edward Cantor a 1836, wanda ya ba shi sunan kimiyya Hamadryas hannah. Cantor yana da nau'i uku daga Sundarbans da kuma wanda aka kama a kusa da Kolkata. Albert Günther ya koma cikin jinsin Ophiophagus a 1864. A 2016 nazarin kwayoyin halitta ya nuna cewa cobra na sarki shine farkon rassa na layin da ya haifar da mambas, maimakon sauran cobras.Ophiophagus hannah na cikin jinsin Ophiophagus na iyali na Elapidae, yayin da yawancin sauran cobras membobin Naja ne. Ana iya rarrabe su daga sauran cobras ta girman da hood.
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