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Field's horned viper

Pseudocerastes fieldi
Ka lebitso: The name fieldi honours American anthropologist Henry Field, who collected the first specimen used to describe the species.1
E hloka ngakaHa e atise ho bolaya, empa ho longwa ho hloka ngaka.
Di-viper le di-adder Ho loma
Kotsi ho batho: E tebilengHo longwa ho hloka ngaka. Lefu le etsahala ka seoelo haholo.

Field's horned viper is a venomous snake from the viper family. It lives in the deserts of the Middle East. Its venom is unusual because it attacks the nerves, while most vipers' venom damages tissue and blood vessels.1

E phela
Sinai Peninsula, Israel, Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia, northwestern Iraq, and possibly southern Syria1
Asia
Lapeng
It prefers desert and shrubland, up to 1,300 m (4,300 ft) above sea level. It has also been found in farmland, but not in or around houses.1
Bolelele
60 cm (2 ft)3
boholo bo tlwaelehileng ba e hodileng
Lebelo le phahameng
e ka bang 3,4 km/h (2,1 mph)
Naheng, kakanyo feela
Ka nnete!Foto ya Field's horned viper
Field's horned viper. Foto: unknown. CC0, iNaturalist.

Ho e tseba jwang

  • It has fewer scales in certain counts than the Persian horned viper.1
  • Its tail is much shorter compared with its overall body length.1
  • Several rows of its side scales are almost smooth.1

Hangata e ferekanngwa le: It is most often confused with the Persian horned viper. The Persian horned viper has strongly keeled (ridged) scales on its back and sides, while Field's horned viper has smooth side scales. Its tail is also much shorter.1

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 contains several fractions with marked neurotoxic activity, which means it attacks the nerves. This differs from the Persian horned viper, whose venom causes strong bleeding and tissue damage typical of most vipers. Its venom is venomous, so bites are a medical emergency.1

E kotsi hakae ho batho?

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

Haeba e loma

  • No antivenom is available for bites from this snake. A polyvalent antiserum may offer some protection against its blood-damaging toxins, but none against the nerve-attacking effects of its venom.1
  • 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?

Field's horned viper bolelele ba e ka bang 60 cm (2 ft)Katse ya lapeng e ka bang 50 cm (1,6 ft)Ntja e ka bang 1 m (3,3 ft)
e telele jwaloka dibanana tse 3 tse latellanange ka matha metara e 100 ka metsotswana e 110 (motho ya potlakang ka ho fetisisa o hloka 9,6)

Field's horned viper 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

The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, and its journal Fieldiana, are named after Henry Field's grandfather, Marshall Field.1

2

A 2014 genetic study found it is equally distant from the Persian horned viper and another horned viper, Pseudocerastes urarachnoides.1

Ho senya ditshomo

Tshomo: It is just a subspecies of the Persian horned viper.

Nnete: Most sources now classify it as a separate species, Pseudocerastes fieldi.1

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa chefo

Lebitso la saense
Pseudocerastes fieldi
Sehlopha
Di-viper le di-adder
Lelapa
Viperidae2
Tatelano
Squamata
Dikontinente
Asia
Masea
It is oviparous, meaning it lays eggs.1
Kotsi ho batho
3 / 5: E tebileng3

Moo dintlha di tswang teng

  1. Field's horned viper (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Pseudocerastes fieldi (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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