Daboia siamensis

Tsai, Tein-Shun & Mao, Jean-Jay, 2017, Zavreliella undetermined, Zoological Studies 56 (38), pp. 1-23 : 7

Daboia siamensis

Dorsal body with blotches or designs edged by black and/or light lines ( Fig. 2B ); dorsal body scales strongly keeled (except for the outermost row); top of head with three large, prominent, dark patches forming a light “Y” between them and covered only with small scales (except for supraoculars or nasals); anal scale entire.

Figures

Fig. 2. Representative images of the dorsal head, anterior body, middle body, and posterior body of potential types of shed skins for the snake species: (A) Cyclophiops major (not patterned; adult); (B) Daboia siamensis (patterned; adult); (C) Deinagkistrodon acutus (patterned; adult); (D) Elaphe carinata yonaguniensis (patterned-type I; neonate); (E) E. c. yonaguniensis (patterned-type I; juvenile); (F) E. c. yonaguniensis (patterned-type II; adult); (G) E. taeniurus friesi (patterned-type I; juvenile); (H) E. t. friesi (patterned-type II; adult); (I) Euprepiophis mandarinus (patterned-type I; adult); (J) E. mandarinus (patterned-type II; adult). Scale bar = 0.5 cm.