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Blotched palm pitviper

Bothriechis supraciliaris
Anahitaji daktariMara chache huua, lakini kuumwa kunahitaji daktari.
Nyoka wenye vishimo KuumwaHula: Nyama
Hatari kwa watu: MbayaKuumwa kunahitaji daktari. Vifo ni nadra sana.

The blotched eyelash-pitviper is a venomous snake that lives in the mountain forests of southern Costa Rica and western Panama. It spends much of its time in trees and is active mainly at dusk or at night. Its bite can cause serious bleeding and muscle damage, so it is important to recognise it and keep well away.1

Anaishi
Southern Costa Rica (between San Isidro and San Vito) and western Panama, in the Talamanca Mountains1
Amerika Kaskazini
Nyumbani
It lives in the trees of evergreen lower-montane forests and cloud forests. It also lives in clearings with coffee and banana plantations, at the edges of farm fields, and in rural gardens.1
Urefu
50 cm hadi 80 cm (1.6 ft hadi 2.6 ft)1
Kasi ya juu
takriban km 3.4 kwa saa (maili 2.1 kwa saa)
Nchi kavu, makadirio
Hula nini?
It eats frogs, including Fitzinger's robber frog, and small rodents that live on the forest floor.1
Kweli kabisa!Picha ya Blotched palm pitviper
Blotched palm pitviper. Picha: Alejandro Arteaga, R. Alexander Pyron, Abel Batista, Jose Vieira, Elson Meneses Pelayo, Eric N. Smith, César L. Barrio Amorós, Claudia Koch, Stefanie Agne, Jorg. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Jinsi ya kumtambua

  • Usually bright green or moss-green, though it can also be bluish-green, reddish-brown or reddish-maroon.1
  • Irregular dark blotches run along the back, and these sometimes join to form crossbands.1
  • The belly is light in colour.1
  • The head has dark stripes and prominent scales above the eyes, which give it the name eyelash-pitviper.1
  • Usually 50–60 cm long including the tail, and can reach 80 cm.1

Nguvu ya sumu

Kuumwa

Sumu hutoka kupitia meno yake ya sumu au meno anapouma.

Sumu yake hufanya nini?

Its venom has a potent haemorrhagic action, which damages blood vessels and causes bleeding. It also has moderate myotoxicity, which destroys muscle tissue, and a very weak procoagulant effect, which can slightly speed up clotting.1

Ana hatari gani kwa watu?

Hatari kwa watu: MbayaKuumwa kunahitaji daktari. Vifo ni nadra sana.

Habari njema: madaktari wana dawa (ya kuzuia sumu) au matibabu ya hili.1

Akiuma

  • Mweke mtu bila kutikisika na mtulivu, weka kiungo kilichoumwa usawa wa moyo, ondoa pete na vitu vinavyobana, na umpeleke hospitali haraka.

Daima piga namba ya dharura kwanza (112, 000, 911). Huu ni mwongozo wa jumla wa huduma ya kwanza, si ushauri wa kitabibu. Misingi ya huduma ya kwanza

Kaa salama

  • Kamwe usimguse, kumkamata wala kumchokoza mnyama wa porini, hata akiwa mdogo, na hata akionekana amelala au amekufa.
  • Mpe nafasi. Ukikutana naye, tulia, rudi nyuma polepole na umwache aende zake.
  • Akikuuma: tulia, usitikisike, piga namba yako ya dharura (112, 000, 911) au nenda hospitali haraka. Kumbuka alivyoonekana, picha husaidia.

Hakuwindi wewe. Hutumia sumu yake kukamata chakula au kujilinda, na hupendelea zaidi kujificha. Zaidi kuhusu kukaa salama

Ana ukubwa gani?

Ana urefu gani?

Blotched palm pitviper urefu wa takriban 80 cm (2.6 ft)Paka wa nyumbani takriban 50 cm (1.6 ft)Mbwa takriban 1 m (3.3 ft)
urefu sawa na paka wa nyumbani 1.5 kutoka pua hadi mkiaurefu sawa na ndizi 4 zilizopangwa mstariangeweza kukimbia mita 100 kwa sekunde 110 (binadamu mwenye kasi zaidi anahitaji 9.6)

Blotched palm pitviper ana ukubwa gani ukilinganisha na WEWE?

Ni hesabu tu kwenye kivinjari chako. Hakuna kinachohifadhiwa wala kutumwa popote.

Ana kasi gani?

inafaa kujua

Ukweli

1

Unlike most other Bothriechis species, it spends more time on the ground, and it may rest on the ground or at the base of trees and shrubs during the day.1

2

Its venom has an estimated LD50 of 6.04 mg/kg. LD50 is the dose that is expected to kill half of a test group, so a lower number means a more toxic venom.1

3

An antivenom made in horses, using venoms from Bothrops asper, Crotalus simus and another snake species, has been reported to neutralise its venom in tests.1

4

Females are longer and thicker than males, and this is the only difference between the sexes that has been noted.1

Kwa wataalamu wa sumu

Jina la kisayansi
Bothriechis supraciliaris
Kundi
Nyoka wenye vishimo
Familia
Viperidae2
Mpangilio
Squamata
Mabara
Amerika Kaskazini
Hatari kwa watu
3 / 5: Mbaya3

Ukweli unatoka wapi

  1. Bothriechis supraciliaris (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Bothriechis supraciliaris (iNaturalist): majina na uainishaji.
  3. Venom Wiki: kiwango cha hatari, ukubwa wa kawaida na makadirio ya kasi ni yetu wenyewe. Ona jinsi tunavyovipata: Jinsi tunavyopima hatari.

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