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Black-speckled palm pitviper

Bothriechis nigroviridis
Ka lebitso: The scientific name comes from the Latin niger (black) and viridis (green), a reference to its colour pattern.1
E hloka ngakaHa e atise ho bolaya, empa ho longwa ho hloka ngaka.
Di-pit viper Ho loma
Kotsi ho batho: E tebilengHo longwa ho hloka ngaka. Lefu le etsahala ka seoelo haholo.

The black-speckled palm pitviper is a green pit viper with black markings. It lives in the mountain forests of Costa Rica and Panama. It matters because its bite is venomous and fatalities have been reported.1

E phela
Mountains of Costa Rica and Panama, on both the Atlantic and Pacific slopes1
Amerika Leboya
Lapeng
It lives in high montane forest, lower montane wet forest and cloud forest, at around 1,150 m and up to over 3,000 m. It is locally common in undisturbed forest but soon disappears from cultivated land.1
Bolelele
94 cm (3,1 ft)1
Lebelo le phahameng
e ka bang 3,5 km/h (2,2 mph)
Naheng, kakanyo feela
Ka nnete!Foto ya Black-speckled palm pitviper
Black-speckled palm pitviper. Foto: Wouter Beukema. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Ho e tseba jwang

  • Emerald green body (rarely yellowish green) with strong black mottling1
  • Pale green blotches on the back, often with black edges1
  • Head heavily mottled with black, with a dark stripe running back towards the angle of the jaw1
  • Yellowish green belly, lightly mottled with black1
  • Prehensile tail, and almost black eyes1

Matla a chefo

Ho loma

Chefo e tswa ka meno a yona a chefo (fangs) kapa ka meno a mang ha e loma.

Chefo ya yona (eo e e kenyang ka ho loma kapa ho hlaba) e etsang?

Its venom is harmful and the bite can cause intense pain, nausea and asphyxia, which means difficulty breathing.1

E kotsi hakae ho batho?

Kotsi ho batho: E tebilengHo longwa ho hloka ngaka. Lefu le etsahala ka seoelo haholo.

Fatalities have been reported after bites from this snake.1

Haeba e loma

  • Boloka motho a sa sisinyehe ebile a kgutsitse, boloka setho se lomilweng se lekana le bophahamo ba pelo, tlosa mesale le dintho tse tiileng, mme o mo ise sepetlele kapele.

Kamehla letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso pele (112, 000, 911). Ena ke tataiso e akaretsang ya thuso ya pele, hase keletso ya bongaka. Metheo ya thuso ya pele

Dula o bolokehile

  • O se ke wa ama, wa tshwara kapa wa tena phoofolo ya naheng, leha e le e nyenyane, le leha e shebahala e robetse kapa e shwele.
  • E fe sebaka. Ha o kopana le yona, dula o kgutsitse, kgutlela morao butle mme o e tlohele e tsamaye ka tsela ya yona.
  • Haeba e nngwe e o loma: dula o kgutsitse, o se ke wa sisinyeha, letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso (112, 000, 911) kapa o ye sepetlele kapele. Hopola hore e ne e shebahala jwang, foto e a thusa.

Ha e o batle. E sebedisa chefo ya yona ho tshwara dijo kapa ho itshireletsa, mme e kgetha ho ipata. Ho eketsehileng ka ho dula o bolokehile

Hokae lefatsheng?

AfrikaAsiaYuropaAmerika LeboyaAmerika BorwaAustralia le Oceania

E kgolo hakae?

E telele hakae?

Black-speckled palm pitviper bolelele ba e ka bang 94 cm (3,1 ft)Katse ya lapeng e ka bang 50 cm (1,6 ft)Ntja e ka bang 1 m (3,3 ft)
e telele jwaloka dikatse tsa lapeng tse 2 ho tloha nkong ho isa mohatlenge telele jwaloka dibanana tse 5 tse latellanange ka matha metara e 100 ka metsotswana e 100 (motho ya potlakang ka ho fetisisa o hloka 9,6)

Black-speckled palm pitviper e kgolo hakae ha e bapiswa le WENA?

Ke dipalo feela ka hara sebatli sa hao. Ha ho letho le bolokwang kapa le romelwang kae kapa kae.

E potlaka hakae?

ho molemo ho tseba

Dintlha

1

Its tongue is black, which sets it apart from many other pit vipers.1

2

It has a prehensile tail, which means it can grip branches.1

3

Its eyes look almost black because the iris is heavily speckled.1

4

Two exceptionally large females measured 89.2 cm and 93.7 cm, which is larger than most adults.1

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa chefo

Lebitso la saense
Bothriechis nigroviridis
Sehlopha
Di-pit viper
Lelapa
Viperidae2
Tatelano
Squamata
Dikontinente
Amerika Leboya
Kotsi ho batho
3 / 5: E tebileng3

Moo dintlha di tswang teng

  1. Bothriechis nigroviridis (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Bothriechis nigroviridis (iNaturalist): mabitso le tlhophiso.
  3. Venom Wiki: boemo ba kotsi, boholo bo tlwaelehileng le kakanyo ya lebelo ke tsa rona. Bona kamoo re di balang ka teng: Kamoo re lekanyang kotsi ka teng.

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