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Daboia russelii siamensis



Daboia russelii siamensis

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Viperidae
Subfamily: Viperinae
Genus: Daboia
Species: D. russelii
Subspecies: D. r. siamensis
Trinomial name
Daboia russelii siamensis
(Smith, 1917)
Synonyms
  • Vipera russelli siamensis - M.A. Smith, 1917
  • Coluber russelli siamensis - Oshima, 1920
  • Vipera russelli limitis - Mertens, 1927
  • Vipera russelli formosensis - Maki, 1931
  • Vipera russelii sublimitis - Kopstein, 1936
  • Vipera russelii formosensis - Klemmer, 1963
  • Vipera russelii limitis - Klemmer, 1963
  • Vipera russelii siamensis - Klemmer, 1963
  • Viper russelli siamensis - Sakuragawa, 1979
  • Daboia (Daboia) russelli limitis - Obst, 1983
  • Daboia (Daboia) russelli siamensis - Obst, 1983
  • Vipera russelli siamensis - Nakada, Nakada, Ito & Inoue, 1984
  • Vipera russelli burmanus - Muang Muang Aye In Gopalakrishnakone & Tan, 1987
  • Daboia russelli siamensis - Golay et al., 1993[1]
Common name: Eastern Russell's viper,[2] Siamese Russell's viper,[3] more.

Daboia russelii siamensis is a venomous viper subspecies[4] that is found only in parts of Southeast Asia, southern China and Taiwan.[1]

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Description

  The color-pattern is the same as for D. r. russelii, except that the color is more grayish or olive, with small spots between the large spot rows. Venter suffused with gray posteriorly.[5]

Common names

Eastern Russell's viper,[2] Siamese Russell's viper. Previously, other common names were used to described subspecies that are now part of the synonymy of this form: Indonesian Russell's viper for limitis, and Formosan Russell's viper for formosensis.[3]

Geographic range

Found in Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, China (Kwangsi, Kwangtung), Taiwan and Indonesia (Endeh, Flores, east Java, Komodo, Lomblen Islands).[1]

Brown (1973) mentions that D. russelii (i.e. D. r. siamensis) can also found in Vietnam, Laos and on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.[6] Ditmars (1937) reportedly received a specimen from Sumatra as well.[7] However, its distribution in the Indonesian archipelago is still being elucidated.[8]

Venom

A monovalent antivenin, called "Russell's Viper Antivenin", is made in Thailand by the Thai Red Cross to counteract the venom of this subspecies.[2]

See also

Cited references

  1. ^ a b c McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. ISBN 1-893777-00-6.
  2. ^ a b c Daboia russelii siamensis at Munich AntiVenom INdex (MAVIN). Accessed 23 October 2006.
  3. ^ a b Mehrtens JM. 1987. Living Snakes of the World in Color. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. ISBN 0-8069-6460-X.
  4. ^ Daboia russelii siamensis (TSN 635239). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 23 October 2006.
  5. ^ Mallow D, Ludwig D, Nilson G. 2003. True Vipers: Natural History and Toxinology of Old World Vipers. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida. ISBN 0-89464-877-2.
  6. ^ Brown JH. 1973. Toxicology and Pharmacology of Venoms from Poisonous Snakes. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas. 184 pp. LCCCN 73-229. ISBN 0-398-02808-7.
  7. ^ Ditmars RL. 1933. Reptiles of the World. Revised Edition. The MacMillan Company. 329 pp. 89 plates.
  8. ^ Belt P, Warrell DA, Malhotra A, Wüster W, Thorpe RS. 1997. Russell's viper in Indonesia: snakebite and systematics. In R.S. Thorpe, W. Wüster & A. Malhotra (Eds.), Venomous Snakes: Ecology, Evolution and Snakebite. Clarendon Press, Oxford. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, No. 70:219-234.
 
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