Broad-headed snake
The broad-headed snake is a small to medium-sized venomous snake that lives only in the Sydney Basin in New South Wales, Australia. It is black with yellow markings and is rare today, so it is protected. It is easy to mistake for a young diamond python.1

Uko wayimenya
- Black, with numerous irregular yellow markings arranged in narrow cross-bands.1
- Small to medium-sized, averaging 60 cm in total length including the tail, though some records show lengths up to 90 cm.1
- Often found on sandstone cliffs and rocks in the colder months, and in hollow trees in summer.1
Ikunze kwitiranywa na: The young diamond python is superficially very similar and lives in the same habitat, so inexperienced people can easily confuse the two. In 2023, a man was bitten in the Southern Highlands of NSW after capturing a broad-headed snake he believed was a diamond python.1
Imbaraga z'ubumara
Ubumara busohokera mu menyo yayo y'ubumara cyangwa mu yandi menyo iyo iriye.
Iteje akaga kangana iki ku bantu?
Akaga ku bantu: IkomeyeKurumwa na yo bisaba kujya kwa muganga. Abapfa ni bake cyane.It is venomous and can bite. In 2023, a man was bitten after capturing one he believed was a diamond python to show his children.1
Niba iruma
- Gupfuka ukanda no kudanyeganyeza (pressure immobilisation): zingira bande ikweduka kandi ifashe neza hejuru y'aho yarumye, hanyuma uzamuke ku rugingo rwose, urushyireho agati ko kurukomeza (attelle), kandi umuntu agume atanyeganyega na gato kugeza ubutabazi buhageze.
- Ntugasukure aho yarumye ukoresheje amazi: ibitaro bishobora gupima ubumara bwasigaye ku ruhu kugira ngo bihitemo umuti urwanya ubumara (antivenom) ukwiye.
Buri gihe banza uhamagare nimero y'ubutabazi (112, 000, 911). Izi ni inama rusange z'ubutabazi bw'ibanze, si inama za muganga. Ibanze by'ubutabazi bw'ibanze
Irinde akaga
- Ntuzigere ukora, ufata cyangwa ushotora inyamaswa yo mu gasozi, nubwo yaba ntoya, kandi nubwo yasa n'isinziriye cyangwa yapfuye.
- Yihe umwanya. Niba uhuye n'imwe, tuza, usubire inyuma buhoro buhoro kandi uyireke yigendere.
- Niba imwe ikurumye: tuza, ntunyeganyege, hamagara nimero y'ubutabazi (112, 000, 911) cyangwa ujye ku bitaro vuba. Ibuka uko yasaga, ifoto irafasha.
Ntigushakisha ngo ikugirire nabi. Ikoresha ubumara bwayo kugira ngo ifate ibyo kurya cyangwa yirinde, kandi ikunda cyane kwihisha. Ibindi ku kwirinda
Ingana gute?
Ireshya ite?
ireshya n'injangwe zo mu rugo 2 zikurikiranye kuva ku zuru kugeza ku murizo
ireshya n'imineke 5 ikurikiranye
yakwiruka metero 100 mu masegonda 58 (umuntu wihuta kurusha abandi akenera 9,6)Broad-headed snake ingana ite ugereranyije NAWE?
Ni imibare gusa ikorerwa muri mudasobwa yawe. Nta kintu kibikwa cyangwa cyoherezwa ahandi.
Yihuta gute?
Ibintu by'ukuri
Ku bahanga mu by'ubumara
- Izina rya siyansi
- Hoplocephalus bungaroides
- Itsinda
- Inzoka zo muri Ositaraliya
- Umuryango
- Elapidae2
- Itsinda rinini (order)
- Squamata
- Imigabane
- Ositaraliya na Oseyaniya
- Abana bato
- It gives birth to live young, not eggs. Each litter has 4 to 12 offspring, born between January and April, and mature females produce a litter every two years.1
- Uko imeze mu gasozi
- Endangered in New South Wales; Vulnerable under Commonwealth legislation1
- Akaga ku bantu
- 3 / 5: Ikomeye3
Aho ibintu bivugwa bituruka
- Broad-headed snake (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Hoplocephalus bungaroides (iNaturalist): amazina n'ibyiciro.
- Venom Wiki: urwego rw'akaga, ingano isanzwe n'ikigereranyo cy'umuvuduko ni ibyacu bwite. Reba uko tubibara: Uko tugena akaga.
Buri kintu kivugwa kuri iyi paji gifite nimero yerekana aho cyavuye. Niba twibeshye, tubabarire, turi abakunzi b'inyamaswa, ntituri ikinyamakuru cya siyansi. Tubwire kuri [email protected] tuzabikosora.
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