Russell's viper
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Etymology
Named in honour of Patrick Russell (1726–1805), Scottish herpetologist who first described many of India's snakes.
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Russell's viper (plural Russell's vipers)
- The venomous viper Daboia russelii.
- Synonyms: chain viper, polonga
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 164:
- Some weeks before, one of the masters at the College, an unpopular Parsee, had found a Russell's viper nosing round his classroom.
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