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Florida cottonmouth

Agkistrodon conanti
Game da sunan: It is named in honour of Roger Conant, a herpetologist (reptile and amphibian scientist) and friend of the scientist who first described it.1
Yana buƙatar likitaBa kasafai yake kisa ba, amma cizo yana buƙatar likita.
Haɗari ga mutane: Mai tsananiCizo yana buƙatar likita. Mutuwa ba kasafai take faruwa ba.

The Florida cottonmouth is a thick-bodied venomous pit viper that lives in the southeastern United States. It is found in wetlands across Florida and southern Georgia, including on some offshore islands. It matters because its venom can be lethal, and it is often mistaken for harmless watersnakes.1

Yana zaune a
Southeastern United States: the Florida peninsula, including the Florida Keys as far as Big Pine Key, and southern Georgia1
Arewacin Amurka
Gida
It lives in nearly every type of wetland in its range, including brackish water, cypress ponds and wet prairies. It is occasionally found up to 1.6 km from surface water, and in some areas it is seen in wet pine and palmetto areas. It tends to gather around drying water holes, where prey is concentrated.1
Tsawo
76 cm zuwa 1.9 m (2.5 ft zuwa 6.2 ft)1
Nauyi
4.6 kg (10 lb)1
Mafi girman sauri
kusan 3.6 km/h (2.2 mph)
A kan tudu, ƙiyasi
Da gaske!Hoton Florida cottonmouth
Florida cottonmouth. Hoto: William J. Deml. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Yadda za ka gane shi

  • Adults are usually 76 to 122 cm long, with a thick body and a broad head.1
  • The head has bold black stripes on each side of the cheeks, edged above and below with light cream or white lines.1
  • The body is olive brown, dark brown or black, with 10 to 17 dark bands. Adults often grow darker and their bands can be faint or absent.1
  • Newborns and young snakes are clay-red or 'red dirt' in colour, with the same pattern as adults.1
  • A pair of dark vertical lines runs down the tip of the snout.1

Ana yawan rikita shi da: It is often confused with harmless watersnakes (Nerodia) and other semi-aquatic snakes that share its habitat. The Florida cottonmouth has a longer tail, with a relative tail length of about 17.4% in adult and subadult males. Its head markings are lighter, cleaner and more sharply defined, even in older snakes.1

Ƙarfin dafi

Cizo

Dafi yana fitowa ta haƙoransa na dafi ko haƙoransa idan ya ciza.

Me dafinsa yake yi?

Its venom is very hemolytic, meaning it destroys red blood cells. It also causes relatively extensive necrosis, which is death of body tissue, compared with many other snake venoms. Its venom can sometimes be lethal.1

Yaya haɗarinsa yake ga mutane?

Haɗari ga mutane: Mai tsananiCizo yana buƙatar likita. Mutuwa ba kasafai take faruwa ba.

The venom can sometimes be lethal, with a 17% mortality rate.1

Idan ya ciji

  • Ka sa mutumin ya zauna ba motsi kuma ya natsu, ka ajiye gaɓar da aka ciza a daidai matakin zuciya, ka cire zobba da abubuwa masu matsi, kuma ku je asibiti da sauri.

Kullum ka fara kiran lambar gaggawa (112, 000, 911). Wannan jagorar agajin gaggawa ce ta gaba ɗaya, ba shawarar likita ba. Muhimman abubuwan agajin gaggawa

Kiyaye lafiya

  • Kada ka taɓa, kada ka kama, kada ka tsokani dabbar daji, ko da ƙarama ce, kuma ko da tana kama da tana barci ko ta mutu.
  • Ka ba shi sarari. Idan ka haɗu da ɗaya, ka natsu, ka koma baya a hankali kuma ka bar shi ya bi hanyarsa.
  • Idan ɗaya ya ciji ka: ka natsu, ka zauna ba motsi, ka kira lambar gaggawarka (112, 000, 911) ko ka je asibiti da sauri. Ka tuna yadda yake, hoto yana taimakawa.

Ba ya neman cutar da kai. Yana amfani da dafinsa don kama abinci ko don kare kansa, kuma ya fi son ya ɓuya. Ƙarin bayani game da kiyaye lafiya

Yaya girmansa yake?

Yaya tsawonsa yake?

Florida cottonmouth tsawonsa kusan 1.9 m (6.2 ft)Keken babba kusan 1.8 m (5.9 ft)Mota kusan 4.5 m (15 ft)

Yaya nauyinsa yake?

nauyin kyanwoyin gida 1
tsawon kyanwoyin gida 4 daga hanci zuwa wutsiyatsawon ayaba 10 a jerekusan nauyin kyanwar gidazai iya gudun mita 100 cikin daƙiƙa 100 (mutum mafi sauri yana buƙatar 9,6)

Yaya girman Florida cottonmouth yake idan aka kwatanta da KAI?

Lissafi ne kawai a cikin burauzarka. Ba a adana komai ko a aika ko'ina.

Yaya saurinsa yake?

abin da ya kamata a sani

Bayanai

1

It has more than 20 colloquial names, including water moccasin, pond moccasin, swamp lion and water rattlesnake.1

2

The largest recorded specimen, from Marion County, Florida, weighed 4.6 kg.1

3

Females usually breed only every other year.1

Mai karya tatsuniya

Tatsuniya: It is a harmless watersnake.

Gaskiya: It is a venomous pit viper. Its venom can be lethal, and it is easily confused with harmless watersnakes.1

Don ƙwararru a kan dafi

Sunan kimiyya
Agkistrodon conanti
Rukuni
Pit vipers
Iyali
Viperidae2
Tsari
Squamata
Nahiyoyi
Arewacin Amurka
Jarirai
It gives birth to live young (ovoviviparous), usually 6 to 8 per litter, with a range of 1 to 15. Newborns average 18 cm long.1
Haɗari ga mutane
3 / 5: Mai tsanani3

Inda bayanan suka fito

  1. Florida cottonmouth (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Agkistrodon conanti (iNaturalist): sunaye da rarrabuwa.
  3. Venom Wiki: matakin haɗari, girman al'ada da ƙiyasin sauri namu ne. Ga yadda muke lissafa su: Yadda muke auna haɗari.

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