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Salazar's pit viper

Trimeresurus salazar
Ku linnya: It is named after Salazar Slytherin, a character from the Harry Potter series, who was famous for being a Parselmouth, someone who can talk to snakes.1
Kyetaaga omusawoTekitera kutta, naye okulumwa kwetaaga omusawo.
Akabi eri abantu: Kya maanyiOkulumwa kwetaaga omusawo. Okufa kubaawo kitono nnyo.

Salazar's pit viper is a slim, green venomous snake. Scientists first found it in 2019 in the lowlands of north-east India. It is special because it is a new species, named after a character from the Harry Potter books.1

Kibeera mu
Eastern Himalayas and north-east India, including Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura. Also in Bhutan and Chhattisgarh, India.1
Asiya
Awaka
It lives in lowland areas, at about 172 metres above sea level in the places where it was first recorded. It is nocturnal, and has been seen coiled on shrubs at night. Its habitat is under threat from road building, farming and hydroelectric projects.1
Obuwanvu
36 cm okutuuka ku 42 cm (1,2 ft okutuuka ku 1,4 ft)1
Embiro ezisinga
nga 3,3 km/h (2,1 mph)
Ku lukalu, kuteebereza bwokka
Kirya ki?
The diet of pit vipers in the genus Trimeresurus includes lizards, amphibians, birds, rodents and other small mammals.1
Ddala!Ekifaananyi kya Salazar's pit viper
Salazar's pit viper. Ekifaananyi: [Photo by Aamod Zambre and Chintan Seth, Eaglenest Biodiversity Project] Mirza ZA, Bhosale HS, Phansalkar PU, Sawant M, Gowande GG, Patel H (2020) A new species. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Engeri y'okukitegeera

  • Its head is dark green, and the rest of its body is yellowish green.1
  • Males have a reddish-orange stripe along the side of the head and body, and a rusty red-orange tail. Females lack these markings.1
  • Juveniles are brightly coloured, and the males' head stripe is much more prominent.1
  • Adults reach about 36 to 41 cm long, with a triangular head that is clearly distinct from the neck.1

Kitera okutabulwa ne: It is often confused with the white-lipped pit viper (Trimeresurus albolabris), the Trimeresurus septentrionalis and the Trimeresurus insularis. Salazar's pit viper has more teeth in its lower and upper jaw, a reddish-orange head stripe in males, and a smaller hemipenis (the male reproductive organ).1

Amaanyi g'obusagwa

Kiruma

Obusagwa buyita mu mannyo gaakyo amawanvu (fangs) oba mu mannyo amalala nga kiruma.

Kirina akabi kenkana wa eri abantu?

Akabi eri abantu: Kya maanyiOkulumwa kwetaaga omusawo. Okufa kubaawo kitono nnyo.

Bwe kiruma

  • Omuntu muleke ateetambula era ateefu, ekitundu ekirumiddwa kibeere ku buwanvu bw'omutima, ggyamu empeta n'ebintu ebinyweza, era omutwale mu ddwaliro mangu.

Bulijjo sooka kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911). Buno bulagirizi bwa bujjanjabi obusooka obwa bulijjo, si kuwabula kwa musawo. Obujjanjabi obusooka obw'omusingi

Weekuume

  • Tokwatako, tokwata wadde okusoomooza ensolo ey'omu nsiko, ne bw'eba ntono, era ne bw'eba erabika nga yeebase oba nga efudde.
  • Gireke n'ebbanga. Bw'osisinkana emu, beera mukkakkamu, dda emabega mpola era gireke egende mu kkubo lyayo.
  • Bw'emu ekuluma: beera mukkakkamu, totambula, kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911) oba tuuka mu ddwaliro mangu. Jjukira bwe yali efaanana, ekifaananyi kiyamba.

Tekikunoonya. Kikozesa obusagwa bwakyo okukwata emmere oba okwekuuma, era kyandisinze kwekweka. Ebirala ku kwekuuma

Kinene kyenkana wa?

Kiwanvu kyenkana wa?

Salazar's pit viper kiwanvu nga 42 cm (1,4 ft)Ndiizi nga 18 cm (7,1 in)Kkapa ey'awaka nga 50 cm (1,6 ft)
kiwanvu nga ndiizi 2,5 eziteekeddwa mu lunyiririkiwanvu nga bbulooka 13 ez'okuzannyisa mu lunyiririkyandisobodde okudduka mita 100 mu sikonda 110 (omuntu asinga embiro yeetaaga 9,6)

Salazar's pit viper kinene kyenkana wa bw'ogeraageranya ne GGWE?

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Ebituufu

1

The house of Slytherin at Hogwarts is shown with a snake and linked to the colour green, which is why this snake was named after him.1

2

Two specimens of this species had been in the Natural History Museum of Denmark since they were collected by a Danish naturalist between 1811 and 1816. They had been wrongly labelled as white-lipped pit vipers.1

3

Pit vipers in the Trimeresurus genus look so alike that they are hard to tell apart in the field, so their true number may be higher than known.1

4

It was first found in 2019 during a reptile expedition to the Eastern Himalayas, and it was the fifth new reptile species found in Arunachal Pradesh that year.1

Omumenyi w'enfumo

Enfumo: The two museum specimens from Denmark were white-lipped pit vipers.

Amazima: They were Salazar's pit vipers, a new species. They had been wrongly labelled, and were only recognised as new after comparison and DNA analysis.1

Ku bakugu mu busagwa

Erinnya erya ssaayansi
Trimeresurus salazar
Ekibinja
Pit vipers (emisota egiwulira ebbugumu)
Amaka
Viperidae2
Ensengeka
Squamata
Ssemazinga
Asiya
Akabi eri abantu
3 / 5: Kya maanyi3

Ebituufu we biva

  1. Trimeresurus salazar (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Trimeresurus salazar (iNaturalist): amannya n'ensengeka y'ebika.
  3. Venom Wiki: omutendera gw'akabi, obunene obwa bulijjo n'okuteebereza kw'embiro bibyaffe. Laba engeri gye tubibalamu: Engeri gye tupimamu akabi.

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