Daboia russelii siamensis
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Common name: Eastern Russell's viper.[2]
Daboia russelii siamensis is a venomous viper subspecies[3] found in parts of Southeast Asia, southern China and Taiwan.[1]
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.[4]
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.[5] Ditmars (1937) reportedly received a specimen from Sumatra as well.[6] However, its distribution in the Indonesian archipelago is still being elucidated.[7]
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Daboia russelii siamensis at Munich AntiVenom INdex (MAVIN). Accessed 23 October 2006.
- ↑ Daboia russelii siamensis (TSN 635239). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed 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
- Species Daboia russelii at the Species2000 Database
- Russell's Viper (on the island of Komodo) at globaljuggler. Accessed 20 October 2006.