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Florida cottonmouth

Agkistrodon conanti

O imenu: It is named in honour of Roger Conant, a herpetologist (reptile and amphibian scientist) and friend of the scientist who first described it.1

Potreben je zdravnikLe redko smrtno nevarno, a po ugrizu je potreben zdravnik.

Jamičarji

Ugrizi

Nevarnost za ljudi: ResnoPo ugrizu je potreben zdravnik. Smrtni primeri so zelo redki.

The Florida cottonmouth is a thick-bodied venomous pit viper that lives in the southeastern United States. It is found in wetlands across Florida and southern Georgia, including on some offshore islands. It matters because its venom can be lethal, and it is often mistaken for harmless watersnakes.1

Živi v

Southeastern United States: the Florida peninsula, including the Florida Keys as far as Big Pine Key, and southern Georgia1

Severna Amerika

Domov

It lives in nearly every type of wetland in its range, including brackish water, cypress ponds and wet prairies. It is occasionally found up to 1.6 km from surface water, and in some areas it is seen in wet pine and palmetto areas. It tends to gather around drying water holes, where prey is concentrated.1

Dolžina

76 cm do 1,9 m (2,5 ft do 6,2 ft)1

Teža

4,6 kg (10 lb)1

Največja hitrost

približno 3,6 km/h (2,2 mph)

Na kopnem, groba ocena

Fotografija: Florida cottonmouth — Florida cottonmouth. Fotografija: William J. Deml. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Kako jo prepoznaš

Adults are usually 76 to 122 cm long, with a thick body and a broad head.1
The head has bold black stripes on each side of the cheeks, edged above and below with light cream or white lines.1
The body is olive brown, dark brown or black, with 10 to 17 dark bands. Adults often grow darker and their bands can be faint or absent.1
Newborns and young snakes are clay-red or 'red dirt' in colour, with the same pattern as adults.1
A pair of dark vertical lines runs down the tip of the snout.1

Pogosto zamenjujejo z: It is often confused with harmless watersnakes (Nerodia) and other semi-aquatic snakes that share its habitat. The Florida cottonmouth has a longer tail, with a relative tail length of about 17.4% in adult and subadult males. Its head markings are lighter, cleaner and more sharply defined, even in older snakes.1

Moč strupa

Ugrizi

Strup pride ven skozi strupnike ali zobe, ko ugrizne.

Kaj naredi njen strup, ko ugrizne ali piči?

Its venom is very hemolytic, meaning it destroys red blood cells. It also causes relatively extensive necrosis, which is death of body tissue, compared with many other snake venoms. Its venom can sometimes be lethal.1

Kako nevarna je za ljudi?

Nevarnost za ljudi: ResnoPo ugrizu je potreben zdravnik. Smrtni primeri so zelo redki.

The venom can sometimes be lethal, with a 17% mortality rate.1

Če ugrizne

Poškodovanca drži pri miru in ga pomirjaj, ugriznjeni ud drži v višini srca, odstrani prstane in tesne stvari ter ga hitro odpelji v bolnišnico.

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Ostani varen

Nikoli se ne dotikaj divje živali, je ne lovi in je ne draži, tudi če je majhna in tudi če je videti, kot da spi ali je mrtva.
Pusti ji prostor. Če jo srečaš, ostani miren, počasi stopi nazaj in jo pusti, da gre svojo pot.
Če te ugrizne: ostani miren, ne premikaj se, pokliči številko za klic v sili (112, 000, 911) ali hitro pojdi v bolnišnico. Zapomni si, kako je izgledala, fotografija pomaga.

Ne preži nate. Strup uporablja, da ulovi hrano ali se zaščiti, in se veliko raje skrije. Več o varnosti

Kje na svetu?

Afrika Azija Evropa Severna Amerika Južna Amerika Avstralija in Oceanija

Kako velika je?

Kako dolga je?

Koliko tehta?

težka kot 1 domačih mačk

dolga kot 4 domačih mačk od nosu do repadolga kot 10 banan, položenih ena za drugopribližno tako težka kot domača mačkazmore 100 metrov v 100 sekundah (najhitrejši človek potrebuje 9,6)

Kakšne velikosti je Florida cottonmouth v primerjavi s TABO?

Samo matematika v tvojem brskalniku. Nič se ne shrani in nič se nikamor ne pošlje.

Kako hitra je?

Želva približno 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Florida cottonmouth približno 3,6 km/h (2,2 mph)

Človek, ki hodi približno 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

vredno vedeti

Dejstva

It has more than 20 colloquial names, including water moccasin, pond moccasin, swamp lion and water rattlesnake.1

The largest recorded specimen, from Marion County, Florida, weighed 4.6 kg.1

Females usually breed only every other year.1

Razbijalec mitov

Mit: It is a harmless watersnake.

Resnica: It is a venomous pit viper. Its venom can be lethal, and it is easily confused with harmless watersnakes.1

Za strokovnjake za strupe

Znanstveno ime: Agkistrodon conanti
Skupina: Jamičarji
Družina: Viperidae2
Red: Squamata
Celine: Severna Amerika
Mladiči: It gives birth to live young (ovoviviparous), usually 6 to 8 per litter, with a range of 1 to 15. Newborns average 18 cm long.1
Nevarnost za ljudi: 3 / 5: Resno3

Od kod so dejstva

Florida cottonmouth (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Agkistrodon conanti (iNaturalist): imena in razvrstitev.
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