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Abstract
A genus of snakes of the family VIPERIDAE. It is distributed in West Pakistan, most of India, Burma, Ceylon, Thailand, southeast China, Taiwan, and a few islands of Indonesia. It hisses loudly when disturbed and strikes with great force and speed. Very prolific, it gives birth to 20-60 young. DABOIA is the leading cause of snakebite in India and Burma. (Moore: Poisonous Snakes of the World, 1980, p127)
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- Coluber russelii
- Daboia pulchella
- Daboia russeli limitis
- Daboia russelii
- Daboia russelii limitis
- Daboia russelii pulchella
- Daboia russelii russelii
- Daboia russelli limitis
- Daboia russelli russelli
- Daboia russellii
- Daboia russellii limitis
- Daboia russellii pulchella
- Daboia russellii russellii
- Russell's Viper
- Vipera russelii
- Vipera russelli
- Vipera russelli russelli
- Vipera russellii
- Russell Viper
- Russells Viper
- Viper, Russell's
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Indexed with the subheadings abnormalities, anatomy & histology, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, classification, embryology, genetics, growth & development, immunology, injuries, metabolism, microbiology, parasitology, physiology, surgery, urine, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
a genus of vipers; its venom: coord IM with VIPER VENOMS (IM)
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History Note
2024(1994)
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Previous Indexing
- Snakes (1966-1993)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Daboia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017840. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017840
- Daboia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daboia
- Daboia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3011594