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Pygmy rattlesnake

Sistrurus miliarius

Davart il num: The specific name miliarius comes from Latin and means millet or millet-like, probably describing the blotched patterns on its body.1

Fa mo malQuai fa mal, ma i na ta fa nagin donn serius.

Serps a sunaglia

MorsasMangia: Charn

Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

The pygmy rattlesnake is a small, venomous snake that lives in the southeastern United States. It is the smallest rattlesnake found on the North American continent. Its venom is strongly tissue-damaging, but the snake makes so little that a bite is unlikely to be fatal to an adult.1

Viva en

Southeastern United States, from southern and eastern North Carolina south through peninsular Florida and west to East Texas and Oklahoma1

America dal Nord

Pagina iniziala

It lives in flatwoods, sandhills, longleaf pine savannahs, mixed scrub oak forests and floodplains, and is also found near lakes and marshes. It does not dig its own burrows. It uses holes dug by small rodents or gopher tortoises, and it prefers densely vegetated areas for cover.1

Lunghezza

40 cm fin 79 cm (1,3 ft fin 2,6 ft)1

Sveltezza maximala

circa 3,3 km/h (2,1 mph)

Sin terra, stima approximativa

Tge mangia el?

It eats small mammals, birds, lizards, insects, frogs and other snakes, and also giant desert centipedes. Young snakes lure skinks by waving the tail, while adults wait motionless in a coil for days at a time.1

Foto da Pygmy rattlesnake — Pygmy rattlesnake. Foto: unknown. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

Co renconuscher el

Small but bulky in width, usually 40 to 60 cm long including the tail1
Dorsal pattern of oval or roughly circular spots with somewhat regular edges1
Flank spots are mostly round and not much taller than they are wide1
Usually 23 rows of dorsal scales at midbody1
Young snakes may be paler or more vividly marked, and have a yellow tail tip. The rattle is tiny and gives only a faint buzz that is heard from a few feet away1

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 is cytotoxic, which means it damages cells, and it is strongly haemorrhagic, which means it causes bleeding. The venom is tissue-toxic but contains no neurotoxins, which attack the nerves. The snake produces only a small amount of venom and contains substantial amounts of serotonin and related compounds.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

The snake produces too little venom to be likely to deliver a fatal bite to a human adult.1

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

Some individuals are very aggressive and strike furiously, while others are lethargic and do not rattle at all, and many are reluctant to bite.1

Sch'el morda

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

Nua sin il mund?

Africa Asia Europa America dal Nord America dal Sid Australia ed Oceania

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

uschè 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 Pygmy rattlesnake cumpareglià cun TAI?

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Quant svelt è el?

Ina tartaruga circa 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Pygmy rattlesnake circa 3,3 km/h (2,1 mph)

Ina persuna che va a pe circa 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

bun da savair

Fatgs

Its venom was the basis for the drug eptifibatide, which is used to prevent clotting during a heart attack.1

It is the smallest rattlesnake found on the North American continent.1

Its rattle is unusually small, which may show the early stages of how rattles evolved.1

Snake fungal disease has risen sharply in pygmy rattlesnakes over the past decade and is a major cause of death, though some snakes have recovered in the field.1

Females may give birth to live young even while infected with snake fungal disease.1

Destructur da mits

Mit: Its bite is deadly to people.

Vardad: The snake makes so little venom that a bite is unlikely to be fatal to an adult human.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Sistrurus miliarius
Gruppa: Serps a sunaglia
Famiglia: Viperidae2
Urden: Squamata
Continents: America dal Nord
Poppins: It gives birth to live young, usually 3 to 13 per litter, between July and September.1
Co ch'i va ad el en la natira: Least concern (IUCN Red List)1
Privel per umans: 2 / 5: Dolurus3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

Sistrurus miliarius (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Sistrurus miliarius (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
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