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Field's horned viper

Pseudocerastes fieldi
Davart il num: The name fieldi honours American anthropologist Henry Field, who collected the first specimen used to describe the species.1
Dovra in mediDarar mortal, ma ina morsa sto vegnir tractada dad in medi.
Vipras Morsas
Privel per umans: GravIna morsa sto vegnir tractada dad in medi. Cas da mort èn fitg rars.

Field's horned viper is a venomous snake from the viper family. It lives in the deserts of the Middle East. Its venom is unusual because it attacks the nerves, while most vipers' venom damages tissue and blood vessels.1

Viva en
Sinai Peninsula, Israel, Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia, northwestern Iraq, and possibly southern Syria1
Asia
Pagina iniziala
It prefers desert and shrubland, up to 1,300 m (4,300 ft) above sea level. It has also been found in farmland, but not in or around houses.1
Lunghezza
60 cm (2 ft)3
grondezza tipica d'in animal creschì
Sveltezza maximala
circa 3,4 km/h (2,1 mph)
Sin terra, stima approximativa
Propi!Foto da Field's horned viper
Field's horned viper. Foto: unknown. CC0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

  • It has fewer scales in certain counts than the Persian horned viper.1
  • Its tail is much shorter compared with its overall body length.1
  • Several rows of its side scales are almost smooth.1

Savens confundì cun: It is most often confused with the Persian horned viper. The Persian horned viper has strongly keeled (ridged) scales on its back and sides, while Field's horned viper has smooth side scales. Its tail is also much shorter.1

Forza dal tissi

Morsas

Il tissi vegn or tras ses dents da tissi u ses dents, cura ch'el morda.

Tge fa ses tissi?

Its venom contains several fractions with marked neurotoxic activity, which means it attacks the nerves. This differs from the Persian horned viper, whose venom causes strong bleeding and tissue damage typical of most vipers. Its venom is venomous, so bites are a medical emergency.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: GravIna morsa sto vegnir tractada dad in medi. Cas da mort èn fitg rars.

Sch'el morda

  • No antivenom is available for bites from this snake. A polyvalent antiserum may offer some protection against its blood-damaging toxins, but none against the nerve-attacking effects of its venom.1
  • Tegna la persuna immobila e quieta, tegna il member mors a l'autezza dal cor, prenda giu anels e chaussas strenschidas e va spert en in ospital.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

  • Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
  • Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
  • Sch'in tal animal ta morda: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

Field's horned viper circa 60 cm lung (2 ft)In giat da chasa circa 50 cm (1,6 ft)In chaun circa 1 m (3,3 ft)
uschè lung sco 3 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess currer 100 meters en 110 secundas (l'uman il pli svelt dovra 9,6)

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Quant svelt è el?

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Fatgs

1

The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, and its journal Fieldiana, are named after Henry Field's grandfather, Marshall Field.1

2

A 2014 genetic study found it is equally distant from the Persian horned viper and another horned viper, Pseudocerastes urarachnoides.1

Destructur da mits

Mit: It is just a subspecies of the Persian horned viper.

Vardad: Most sources now classify it as a separate species, Pseudocerastes fieldi.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific
Pseudocerastes fieldi
Gruppa
Vipras
Famiglia
Viperidae2
Urden
Squamata
Continents
Asia
Poppins
It is oviparous, meaning it lays eggs.1
Privel per umans
3 / 5: Grav3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

  1. Field's horned viper (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Pseudocerastes fieldi (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
  3. Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.

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