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

Maziviro ayo
- 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
Inowanzovhiringidzwa ne: 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
Simba reuturu
Uturu hunobuda nemeno ayo painoruma.
Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?
Ngozi kuvanhu: YakakombaKurumwa kunoda chiremba. Kufa hakuwanzoitiki zvachose.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
Kana ikaruma
- Kusunga nekumisa (pressure immobilisation): monera bhandeji rinotambanuka zvakasimba pamusoro peparumwa wozokwira nenhengo yose, isungirire nechitsigiso (splint), uye chengeta munhu asingafambe zvachose kusvikira rubatsiro rwasvika.
- Usageza parumwa: zvipatara zvinogona kuongorora uturu hwasara paganda kuti zvisarudze antivenom (mushonga weuturu) chaiwo.
Gara uchitanga wafonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911). Iri izano rakajairika rerubatsiro rwekutanga, kwete zano rechiremba. Zvakakosha zverubatsiro rwekutanga
Gara wakachengeteka
- Usambobata mhuka yesango, kuedza kuitora kana kuinetsa, kunyange iri diki, uye kunyange ichiita seyakarara kana yakafa.
- Ipa nzvimbo. Kana ukasangana nayo, dzikama, dzokera shure zvishoma nezvishoma uirege iende nenzira yayo.
- Kana imwe ikakuruma: dzikama, gara wakanyarara, fonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911) kana kuti enda kuchipatara nokukurumidza. Rangarira kuti yaitaridzika sei, mufananidzo unobatsira.
Haisi kukutsvaga. Inoshandisa uturu hwayo kubata chikafu kana kuzvidzivirira, uye inotonyanya kuda kuhwanda. Zvimwe pamusoro pekugara wakachengeteka
Yakakura sei?
Yakareba zvakadii?
yakareba sekatsi dzepamba 2 kubva pamhuno kusvika kumuswe
yakareba semabhanana 5 akateedzana
inogona kumhanya mamita 100 mumasekondi 58 (munhu anomhanyisa kupfuura vose anoda 9.6)Broad-headed snake yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?
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Inomhanya zvakadii?
Chokwadi
Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu
- Zita resainzi
- Hoplocephalus bungaroides
- Boka
- Nyoka dzekuAustralia
- Mhuri
- Elapidae2
- Odha
- Squamata
- Makondinendi
- Australia neOceania
- Vacheche
- 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
- Iri kurarama sei musango
- Endangered in New South Wales; Vulnerable under Commonwealth legislation1
- Ngozi kuvanhu
- 3 / 5: Yakakomba3
Kwakabva chokwadi
- Broad-headed snake (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Hoplocephalus bungaroides (iNaturalist): mazita nekurongwa kwemhuka.
- Venom Wiki: danho rengozi, saizi yakajairika nekufungidzira kwekumhanya ndezvedu. Ona kuti tinozviwana sei: Matinoyera ngozi.
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