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Indian saw-scaled viper

Echis carinatus
MortalIn dals animals ils pli mortals da la Terra. Sch'el ta morda, clama immediat agid.Agid svelt ed antiserum salvan las bleras persunas. Clama immediat tes numer d'urgenza.
Vipras MorsasMangia: Charn
Privel per umans: MortalIn dals animals ils pli privlus dal mund.

The saw-scaled viper is a small, venomous snake of the Middle East, Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent. It is the smallest of the 'big four' Indian snakes that cause the most snakebite cases and deaths. It is easy to miss, which is one reason it causes so many bites.1

Viva en
Middle East, Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent, from India and Sri Lanka to Iraq and Afghanistan1
Asia
Pagina iniziala
It lives on sand, rock, soft soil and in scrubland, and is often found hiding under loose rocks. During the day it hides in deep mammal burrows, rock cracks and rotted logs, and in sandy ground it may bury itself, leaving only the head showing.1
Lunghezza
38 cm fin 80 cm (1,2 ft fin 2,6 ft)1
Sveltezza maximala
circa 3,3 km/h (2,1 mph)
Sin terra, stima approximativa
Tge mangia el?
It feeds on rodents, lizards, frogs and a range of arthropods, including scorpions, centipedes and large insects. Its diet changes with what prey is available.1
Propi!Foto da Indian saw-scaled viper
Indian saw-scaled viper. Foto: Shantanu Kuveskar. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Co renconuscher el

  • Small, usually no more than 60 cm long in total1
  • Pale buff, grey, reddish, olive or pale brown body with whitish spots edged in dark brown1
  • A whitish cross or trident pattern on the top of the head1
  • A faint stripe running from the eye to the angle of the jaw1
  • Whitish to pinkish belly, sometimes with brown dots1

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 causes swelling and pain within minutes of a bite, and the swelling can spread up the whole limb within 12 to 24 hours, with blisters forming on the skin. The more dangerous effects are whole-body: bleeding and clotting problems, bleeding from the stomach, lungs, nose or urine, and possible shock. Most patients produce little or no urine within a few hours to six days after the bite.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: MortalIn dals animals ils pli privlus dal mund.

About 20% of its bites used to be fatal, but deaths are now quite rare because antivenom is available. It is one of the species responsible for the most snakebite cases because it is inconspicuous and extremely aggressive.1

Bunas novitads: ils medis han in medicament (antiserum) u in tractament per quai.1

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

When threatened it forms a double coil in a figure of eight, with its head in the centre, so it can lash out like a released spring.1

Sch'el morda

  • Antivenin therapy and intravenous hydration within hours of the bite are vital for survival.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?

Indian saw-scaled viper circa 80 cm lung (2,6 ft)In giat da chasa circa 50 cm (1,6 ft)In chaun circa 1 m (3,3 ft)
uschè lung sco 1,5 giats da chasa dal nas fin a la cuauschè lung sco 4 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess currer 100 meters en 110 secundas (l'uman il pli svelt dovra 9,6)

Quant grond è Indian saw-scaled viper cumpareglià cun TAI?

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Quant svelt è el?

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Fatgs

1

On average it produces about 18 mg of dry venom, with a recorded maximum of 72 mg. The lethal dose for an adult is estimated at only 5 mg.1

2

When it rains, up to 80% of the adult population may climb into bushes and trees. Once, about 20 individuals were seen massed on one cactus or small shrub.1

3

It moves mainly by sidewinding, a method it is very skilled at and surprisingly quick with. Only two points of its body touch the hot ground, which may help it avoid overheating.1

4

Its venom is used to make several drugs, including echistatin, an anticoagulant that can be made by chemical synthesis, and ecarin, used in a clotting test.1

5

In the northern parts of its range, it hibernates in winter.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific
Echis carinatus
Gruppa
Vipras
Famiglia
Viperidae2
Urden
Squamata
Continents
Asia
Poppins
It gives birth to live young (ovoviviparous), usually 3 to 15 per litter, each 115 to 152 mm long.1
Privel per umans
5 / 5: Mortal3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

  1. Echis carinatus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Echis carinatus (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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