Common lancehead
The common lancehead is a highly venomous pit viper that lives in the tropical lowlands of northern South America and on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. It is one of the most common pit vipers in its range and is not endangered. Its venom disrupts blood clotting, which makes its bite especially serious.1

Maziviro ayo
- Ground colour is olive, brown, tan, grey or yellow, and rarely rusty.1
- The body pattern is a series of blotches that often fuse into bands. The markings are X-like, which is why some local names refer to the letter X.1
- The chin is pale yellow, and a dark stripe runs from behind the eye to the corner of the mouth.1
- The irises are gold or bronze, and the tongue is black.1
- Adults usually measure 75 to 125 cm in total length and are moderately heavy-bodied.1
Inowanzovhiringidzwa ne: It is often confused with Bothrops asper, which was once included in this species. Most authorities now consider B. asper to be a separate species. This confusion also makes reports of its maximum size unclear.1
Simba reuturu
Uturu hunobuda nemeno ayo painoruma.
Uturu hwayo hunoitei?
Its venom is haemorrhagic, meaning it damages the lining of blood vessels and uses up the substances that allow blood to clot. Symptoms can include severe bleeding, kidney failure, abnormal clotting, blisters and necrosis (death of body tissue). Bleeding in the brain can also occur. Recovery from the clotting problem has been seen 14 to 30 hours after a bite.1
Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?
Ngozi kuvanhu: InourayaImwe yemhuka dzine ngozi zvikuru pasi rose.The bite is serious and can be fatal. Plantation workers are often bitten. Juvenile snakes have more lethal venom that kills more quickly, and people bitten by young snakes are more likely to develop the clotting problem. In a case reported in the Brazilian Amazon, the patient died of a stroke even after antivenom was given. A Mexican polyvalent antivenom tested against it had no effect on the clotting problem.1
Inoitei kana yatya?
It is easily agitated, and it can lie camouflaged for hours, nearly undetectable, then strike at high speed.1
Kana ikaruma
- Chengeta munhu asingafambe uye akadzikama, chengeta nhengo yakarumwa yakaenzana nemwoyo, bvisa mhete nezvinhu zvakasunga, uende kuchipatara nokukurumidza.
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 3 kubva pamhuno kusvika kumuswe
yakareba semabhanana 9 akateedzana
inogona kumhanya mamita 100 mumasekondi 92 (munhu anomhanyisa kupfuura vose anoda 9.6)Common lancehead yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?
Masvomhu chete mubrowser yako. Hapana chinochengetwa kana kutumirwa kupi zvako.
Inomhanya zvakadii?
Chokwadi
An enzyme called reptilase, or batroxobin, is taken from its venom and used in modern medical laboratories to measure fibrinogen levels and blood clotting. The enzyme is not affected by heparin.1
Although it is mostly terrestrial, it is an excellent swimmer and will climb trees when needed to reach prey.1
Females with developing embryos move in and out of sunlight to keep themselves and the embryos at a constant temperature.1
Venom yield averages 124 milligrams, but can reach 342 milligrams.1
Despite the large-scale destruction of rainforests, it is among the most numerous and common of pit vipers.1
Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu
- Zita resainzi
- Bothrops atrox
- Boka
- Mapit viper
- Mhuri
- Viperidae2
- Odha
- Squamata
- Makondinendi
- Amerika yeKumaodzanyemba
- Vacheche
- It gives birth to live young, up to 80 at once, with an average of about 60 per litter in equatorial regions after a gestation of three to four months.1
- Iri kurarama sei musango
- Not endangered1
- Ngozi kuvanhu
- 5 / 5: Inouraya3
Kwakabva chokwadi
- Bothrops atrox (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Bothrops atrox (iNaturalist): mazita nekurongwa kwemhuka.
- Venom Wiki: danho rengozi, saizi yakajairika nekufungidzira kwekumhanya ndezvedu. Ona kuti tinozviwana sei: Matinoyera ngozi.
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