''Daboia'' is a
genus
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of
vipers.
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Species
The following four
species
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are recognized as being valid:
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*'' Daboia mauritanica'' – Moorish viper
*'' Daboia palaestinae'' – Palestine viper
*'']Daboia russelii
Russell's viper (''Daboia russelii)'' is a species of highly venomous snake in the family Viperidae. The species is native to South Asia. It was described in 1797 by George Shaw and Frederick Polydore Nodder. It is named after Patrick Russell ...
'' – Russell's viper
*''Daboia siamensis
''Daboia siamensis'' (Common name: eastern Russell's viper,[ ...](_blank)
'' – eastern Russell's viper
In the future, more species may be added to ''Daboia''. Obst (1983) reviewed the genus and suggested that it be extended to include '' Macrovipera lebetina'', '' Daboia palaestinae'', and '' M. xanthina''. Groombridge (1980, 1986) united ''V. palaestinae'' and ''Daboia'' as a clade based on a number of shared apomorphies
In phylogenetics, an apomorphy (or derived trait) is a novel character or character state that has evolved from its ancestral form (or plesiomorphy). A synapomorphy is an apomorphy shared by two or more taxa and is therefore hypothesized to hav ...
, including snout shape and head color pattern. Lenk et al. (2001)[Mallow D, Ludwig D, Nilson G (2003). ''True Vipers: Natural History and Toxinology of Old World Vipers''. Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company. 359 pp. .]
References
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Snake genera
Taxa named by John Edward Gray