Daboia russelii siamensis
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Daboia russelii siamensis is a highly venomous viper. This is a subspecies that is limited to parts of Southeast Asia, southern China and in Taiwan. For general information regarding the species, see Daboia.
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.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.Geographic range
D. r. siamensis: Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, China (Kwangsi, Kwangtung), Taiwan and Indonesia (Endeh, Flores, east Java, Komodo, Lomblen Islands).Ditmars (1937) also mentions receiving a specimen from the Indonesian island of Sumatra.Ditmars RL. 1937. Reptiles of the World: The Crocodilians, Lizards, Snakes, Turtles and Tortoises of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. The McMillan Company. 321 pp. However, the distribution of D. r. siamensis in the Indonesian archipelago is still being elucidated.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.
See also
Cited references
External links
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System - [Daboia russelii siamensis]
- Species [Daboia russelii] at the [EMBL Reptile Database]
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