Taylor's cantil
Taylor's cantil is a stout, venomous pitviper that lives only in northeastern Mexico. It is rare in the wild, and it is known to be very defensive when approached or restrained. Its name honours Edward Harrison Taylor, a herpetologist who studied the reptiles and amphibians of Mexico.1

Akkaataa itti beekamu
- Two bold white or yellowish stripes run along each side of the face.1
- The body has a pattern of black and grey-brown bands, accented with white, yellow and orange.1
- Males are noticeably darker than females, and some older males become nearly black.1
- The tail ends in a small, downturned, spine-like scale.1
- Adults are stout and medium-sized, usually 64 to 90 cm long.1
Yeroo baay'ee kan itti wal fakkeessan: Other members of the genus Agkistrodon differ in several ways. The cottonmouth and Conant's cantil lack the loreal scale that Taylor's cantil has, and the copperhead and broad-banded cantil lack its face stripes. Taylor's cantil also has fewer subcaudal scales than the other cantils, 45 to 56 in males and 40 to 47 in females.1
Humna summii
Summiin yeroo ciniinu ilkaan summii ykn ilkaan isaa keessaan ba'a.
Summiin isaa (ciniinnaa ykn iddiin) maal godha?
Its venom is believed to be similar to that of its close relative, the cantil Agkistrodon bilineatus. The venom is considered potentially fatal.1
Namootaaf hammam balaa qaba?
Balaa namootaaf: Baay'ee balaa qabaNama yaalii hin arganne ajjeesuu danda'a.No case reports of human envenomations have been published. Because the snake is rare and its venom is thought to be potentially fatal, it is treated with caution.1
Yeroo sodaatu maal godha?
It is not overtly aggressive, but it is very defensive, with a volatile temper, and may be quick to strike when approached, threatened or restrained.1
Yoo ciniine
- Namicha sochii malee fi tasgabbaa'aa tursiisi, qaama ciniiname sadarkaa onnee irra kaa'i, qubeelaa fi waan cimee hidhu baasi, dafii hospitaala geessi.
Yeroo hunda dursa lakkoofsa balaa tasaa kee bilbili (112, 000, 911). Kun qajeelfama gargaarsa jalqabaa waliigalaa ti, gorsa yaalaa miti. Bu'uura gargaarsa jalqabaa
Nageenyaan turi
- Bineensa bosonaa gonkumaa hin tuqin, hin qabin, hin tuttuqin, xiqqaa ta'us, rafe ykn du'e fakkaatus.
- Iddoo itti kenni. Yoo tokko wajjin wal argite, tasgabbaa'i, suuta duubatti deebi'iitii karaa isaa akka deemu dhiisi.
- Yoo tokko si ciniine: tasgabbaa'i, sochii malee turi, lakkoofsa balaa tasaa kee (112, 000, 911) bilbili ykn dafii hospitaala ga'i. Maal akka fakkaatu yaadadhu, suuraan ni gargaara.
Si miidhuuf si hin barbaadu. Summii isaa nyaata qabachuuf ykn of eeguuf fayyadama, dhokachuu immoo baay'ee filata. Waa'ee nageenyaa dabalataan
Addunyaa keessaa eessatti?
Hammam guddaa dha?
Dheerinni isaa hammam?
akka adurree manaa 2 funyaan hanga eegeetti dheerata
akka muuzii 5 walitti aananii tarreeffamanii dheerata
meetira 100 sekoondii 100 keessatti fiiguu danda'a (namni hundaa caalaa ariifatu 9,6 barbaada)Taylor's cantil SI wajjin yoo wal bira qabamu hammam guddaa dha?
Herrega qofa barsiisaa kee keessatti. Homtuu hin olkaa'amu, eessayyuu hin ergamu.
Hammam ariifata?
Dhugaawwan
Only a handful of specimens were known for decades. A 1948 to 1953 field study in Tamaulipas yielded just three specimens over 14 months of fieldwork.1
It is the only species in its genus with an obvious difference in colour between males and females.1
It was first collected in 1938 crawling on a highway, and it was not formally described as a subspecies until 1951.1
Its tail is proportionately shorter than in other cantils, making up 16 to 19% of total length in males and 13 to 18% in females.1
Ogeeyyii summiitiif
- Maqaa saayinsii
- Agkistrodon taylori
- Garee
- Bofoota pit viper
- Maatii
- Viperidae2
- Tartiiba
- Squamata
- Ardiiwwan
- Ameerikaa Kaabaa
- Ilmoolee
- It gives birth to live young, usually in litters of 3 to 10.1
- Bosona keessatti haala akkamii keessa jira
- Threatened (listed as a threatened species in Mexico)1
- Balaa namootaaf
- 4 / 5: Baay'ee balaa qaba3
Dhugaawwan eessaa dhufu
- Agkistrodon taylori (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Agkistrodon taylori (iNaturalist): maqaa fi ramaddii.
- Venom Wiki: sadarkaan balaa, guddinni idilee fi tilmaamni ariitii kan keenya. Akkamitti akka hojjennu ilaali: Balaa akkamitti madaalla.
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