>>Respected Sir,

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>>You are perfectly right. My questions are too vague, but what to do? I am an MD doctor with a medical background , not having enough knowledge in this field. I am interested in studying snakes in Homoeopathy and I am doing a research on that. But the information of the snakes mentioned in Homoeopathic literature is around 100 years old, so I am thoroughly confused as through the taxonomy of certain snakes mentioned in Homoeopathic literature. So please forgive my ignorance and kindly help me to know which snakes at present are in which family and sub-family-

>>for example - Lachesis muta, Cencheris contortix, toxicophis, Hydrophis cynocinatus, Vipera berus, Vipera aspis, Vipera daboia, Vipera lachesis, Vipera redi, Vipera torva.



As I mentioned before, the best website for the sort of information you are looking for is the EMBL Reptile database - see the link below.



Lachesis muta = Lachesis muta, family Viperidae, subfamily Crotalinae



Cencheris controtrix = Agkistrodon contortrix, family Viperidae, subfamily Crotalinae



Toxicophis = Agkistrodon



Vipera berus = Vipera berus, Family Viperidae, Subfamily Viperinae



Vipera aspis = Vipera aspis, Family Viperidae, Subfamily Viperinae



Vipera daboia = Daboia russelii, Family Viperidae, Subfamily Viperinae



Vipera lachesis = ?? Bitis arietans, Family Viperidae, Subfamily Viperinae



Vipera redi = Vipera aspis, Family Viperidae, Subfamily Viperinae



Vipera torva = Vipera berus



Hydrophis cynocinatus = Hydrophis cyanocinctus, Family Elapidae, Subfamily Hydrophiinae



It's truly amazing, the taxonomy used in homeopathy is even more out of date than the average issue of Toxicon!!!



For other info on websites, I would suggest you do a search using www.google.com - as oldherper said, you can't expect people to basically write you a textbook on venomous snakes at the drop of a hat.



Hope this is of some help.



Cheers



Wolfgang Wuster
EMBL reptile database


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