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Mexican jumping pitviper

Metlapilcoatlus nummifer
Anahitaji daktariMara chache huua, lakini kuumwa kunahitaji daktari.
Hatari kwa watu: MbayaKuumwa kunahitaji daktari. Vifo ni nadra sana.

The Mexican jumping pit viper is a short, stout snake with a patterned body of dark blotches. It lives only in eastern Mexico, mostly in forests and lowlands. It is a pit viper, a group of snakes that includes many venomous species.1

Anaishi
Eastern Mexico, from San Luis Potosí south-eastward on the Atlantic side and lowlands1
Amerika Kaskazini
Nyumbani
It lives in many kinds of forest, including cloud forest and rain forest, at altitudes of 40 to 1,600 metres (130 to 5,250 feet).1
Urefu
46 cm hadi 61 cm (1.5 ft hadi 2 ft)1
Kasi ya juu
takriban km 3.4 kwa saa (maili 2.1 kwa saa)
Nchi kavu, makadirio
Kweli kabisa!Picha ya Mexican jumping pitviper
Mexican jumping pitviper. Picha: Kristof Zyskowski. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Jinsi ya kumtambua

  • Adults are short and very stout, usually 46 to 61 cm in total length.1
  • The body is tan, light brown or grey, with about 20 dark brown or black diamond-shaped (rhomboid) blotches along the back.1
  • The lower tips of the blotches often join spots on the sides to form narrow crossbands.1
  • The top of the head is dark, with dark stripes running back from the eyes, and the side of the head is lighter.1
  • The belly is whitish, sometimes with dark brown blotches.1

Mara nyingi huchanganywa na: Young bushmasters (Lachesis muta) have been mistaken for this snake. The Mexican jumping pit viper can be told apart because it lacks the specialised tail tip of the bushmaster.1

Nguvu ya sumu

Kuumwa

Sumu hutoka kupitia meno yake ya sumu au meno anapouma.

Ana hatari gani kwa watu?

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

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?

Mexican jumping pitviper urefu wa takriban 61 cm (2 ft)Paka wa nyumbani takriban 50 cm (1.6 ft)Mbwa takriban 1 m (3.3 ft)
urefu sawa na ndizi 3 zilizopangwa mstariangeweza kukimbia mita 100 kwa sekunde 110 (binadamu mwenye kasi zaidi anahitaji 9.6)

Mexican jumping 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

Its body is covered with strongly keeled scales, which have a raised ridge along the middle; in large individuals the scales are tubercular, meaning they have small bumps.1

2

The species has been known from cloud forest as well as rain forest, which makes it one of the more varied habitats for a pit viper in this region.1

Kuvunja dhana potofu

Dhana potofu: It is a young bushmaster.

Ukweli: It is a separate species. It has been mistaken for young bushmasters, but it lacks the bushmaster's specialised tail tip.1

Kwa wataalamu wa sumu

Jina la kisayansi
Metlapilcoatlus nummifer
Kundi
Nyoka wenye vishimo
Familia
Viperidae2
Mpangilio
Squamata
Mabara
Amerika Kaskazini
Hali yake porini
Least Concern (IUCN Red List, assessed March 2007, marked as needing updating); classed as threatened by the government of Mexico1
Hatari kwa watu
3 / 5: Mbaya3

Ukweli unatoka wapi

  1. Metlapilcoatlus nummifer (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Metlapilcoatlus nummifer (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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