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| Daboia russelii siamensis | |
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| 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 (M.A. Smith, 1917) | |
| Synonyms | |
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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
D. r. siamensis
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
- List of viperine species and subspecies
- Viperinae by common name
- Viperinae by taxonomic synonyms
- Snakebite
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c Daboia russelii siamensis at Munich AntiVenom INdex (MAVIN). Accessed 23 October 2006.
- ^ a b Mehrtens JM. 1987. Living Snakes of the World in Color. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. ISBN 0-8069-6460-X.
- ^ Daboia russelii siamensis (TSN 635239). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved on 23 October 2006.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Ditmars RL. 1933. Reptiles of the World. Revised Edition. The MacMillan Company. 329 pp. 89 plates.
- ^ 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.
External links
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Daboia russelii |
- Daboia russelii at the TIGR Reptile Database. Accessed 2 August 2007.
- Russell's Viper (on the island of Komodo) at Globaljuggler. Accessed 20 October 2006.
