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Florida cottonmouth

Agkistrodon conanti

Tentang nama: It is named in honour of Roger Conant, a herpetologist (reptile and amphibian scientist) and friend of the scientist who first described it.1

Perlu jumpa doktorJarang membawa maut, tetapi gigitannya perlu dirawat doktor.

Ular kapak

Gigitan

Bahaya kepada manusia: SeriusGigitannya perlu dirawat doktor. Kematian sangat jarang berlaku.

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

Hidup di

Southeastern United States: the Florida peninsula, including the Florida Keys as far as Big Pine Key, and southern Georgia1

Amerika Utara

Laman utama

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

Panjang

76 cm hingga 1.9 m (2.5 ft hingga 6.2 ft)1

Berat

4.6 kg (10 lb)1

Kelajuan maksimum

kira-kira 3.6 km/j (2.2 mph)

Di darat, anggaran kasar

Gambar Florida cottonmouth — Florida cottonmouth. Gambar: William J. Deml. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Cara mengenalinya

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

Sering dikelirukan dengan: 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

Kuasa bisa

Gigitan

Bisa keluar melalui taring atau giginya apabila ia menggigit.

Apa kesan bisanya?

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

Berapa bahaya ia kepada manusia?

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

Jika ia menggigit

Pastikan orang itu tidak bergerak dan tenang, letakkan anggota yang digigit pada paras jantung, tanggalkan cincin dan barang yang ketat, dan pergi ke hospital dengan segera.

Sentiasa hubungi nombor kecemasan dahulu (112, 000, 911). Ini panduan pertolongan cemas umum, bukan nasihat perubatan. Asas pertolongan cemas

Kekal selamat

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Jika ia menggigit kamu: bertenang, jangan bergerak, hubungi nombor kecemasan (112, 000, 911) atau pergi ke hospital dengan segera. Ingat rupanya, gambar boleh membantu.

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Di mana di dunia?

Afrika Asia Eropah Amerika Utara Amerika Selatan Australia & Oceania

Berapa besar ia?

Berapa panjang ia?

Berapa berat ia?

seberat 1 ekor kucing rumah

sepanjang 4 ekor kucing rumah dari hidung ke ekorsepanjang 10 biji pisang disusun hujung ke hujunglebih kurang seberat kucing rumahboleh melepasi 100 meter dalam 100 saat (manusia paling laju perlukan 9.6)

Berapa besar Florida cottonmouth berbanding KAMU?

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Berapa laju ia?

Kura-kura darat kira-kira 0.3 km/j (0.19 mph)

Florida cottonmouth kira-kira 3.6 km/j (2.2 mph)

Orang berjalan kira-kira 5 km/j (3.1 mph)

berguna untuk diketahui

Fakta

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

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

Females usually breed only every other year.1

Pemecah mitos

Mitos: It is a harmless watersnake.

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

Untuk pakar bisa

Nama saintifik: Agkistrodon conanti
Kumpulan: Ular kapak
Keluarga: Viperidae2
Susunan: Squamata
Benua-benua: Amerika Utara
Anak: 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
Bahaya kepada manusia: 3 / 5: Serius3

Dari mana fakta datang

Florida cottonmouth (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Agkistrodon conanti (iNaturalist): nama dan pengelasan.
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