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Daboia palaestinae (WERNER, 1938)

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Higher TaxaViperidae, Viperinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Palestine Viper
G: Palästinaviper 
SynonymVipera palaestinae WERNER 1938
Vipera xanthina palaestinae — MERTENS 1952
Vipera palaestinae — NILSON & SUNDBERG 1981
Daboia (Daboia) palaestinae — OBST 1983: 233
Vipera palaestinae — WELCH 1994: 123
Vipera palaestinae — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 407
Vipera palaestinae — DISI et al. 2001: 339
Daboia palaestinae — MALLOW et al. 2003
Vipera (s.l.) palaestinae — VENCHI & SINDACO 2006
Daboia palaestinae — STÜMPEL & JOGER 2009
Vipera palaestinae — GRUBER 2009
Vipera palaestinae — VOLYNCHIK 2011
Maxhoservipera palaestinae — HOSER 2012 (preliminary)
Daboia palaestinae — WALLACH et al. 2014: 207
Daboia palaestinae — MEIRI et al. 2019 
DistributionSyria, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon

Type locality: Haifa, Israel (given as “Palaestina”)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZSM 70/1938 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1893 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentVenomous!

Distribution: Not found in Turkey but close to the Turkish-Syrian border (Latakia; fide NILSON et al. 1988). For a map see Sindaco et al. 2013 and Bar et al. 2021.

Daboia palaestinae is the national snake of Israel. 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
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  • Al-Quran, S. 2009. The Herpetofauna of the Southern Jordan. American-Eurasian J. Agric. & Environ. Sci., 6 (4): 385-391 [this journal has a dubious record, see http://goo.gl/81SBPv]
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  • Damhoureyeh, S.A.; Qarqaz, M.A.; Baker, M.A.; Himdan, N.; Eid, E. & Amr, Z.S. 2009. Reptiles and Amphibians in Dibbeen Nature Reserve, Jordan. Vertebrate Zoology 59 (2): 169 – 177
  • Disi, A.M.; Modry, D.; Nečas, P. & Rifai, L. 2001. Amphibians and reptiles of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 408 pp.
  • Esterbauer, H. 1985. Zur Herpetofauna Südwestsyriens. Herpetofauna 7 (38): 23-34 - get paper here
  • Garrigues, Thomas; Catherine Dauga; Elisabeth Ferquel; Valérie Choumet and Anna-Bella Failloux 2005. Molecular phylogeny of Vipera Laurenti, 1768 and the related genera Macrovipera (Reuss, 1927) and Daboia (Gray, 1842), with comments about neurotoxic Vipera aspis aspis populations. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution <br>Volume 35 (1): 35-47 - get paper here
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  • Sindaco, R.; Alberto Venchi & Cristina Grieco 2013. The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic, Volume 2: Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Snakes of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia, with an Update to Volume 1. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 543 pp. - get paper here
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