Mexican beaded lizard
The Mexican beaded lizard is a venomous lizard found mainly in Mexico and southern Guatemala. It is one of only a few lizards known to have evolved a true venom delivery system. Its venom is also being studied for possible medicines.1

Uni qanday tanish mumkin
- Black with yellowish spots or bands.1
- Small, beadlike scales that do not overlap, which give it its name.1
- Stocky body with a broad head.1
- Short tail that stores fat, and does not regrow if broken.1
- Adults are 57 to 91 cm long.1
Koʻpincha adashtiriladi: The Gila monster is its closest relative and looks similar. The Mexican beaded lizard is larger, and its colours are duller, black with yellowish bands.1
Zahar quvvati
Chaqqanda zahar zaharli tishlari yoki tishlari orqali chiqadi.
Uning zahari (chaqsa yoki nish ursa) nima qiladi?
Its venom is a weak hemotoxin, meaning it attacks blood and tissue. It can cause respiratory failure, which is when breathing fails. In humans, bites cause severe pain that can spread well beyond the bite and last up to 24 hours, along with swelling, weakness, sweating and a rapid drop in blood pressure.1
Odamlar uchun qanchalik xavfli?
Odamlar uchun xavf: JiddiyChaqqanda shifokor kerak. Oʻlim holatlari juda kam.Human deaths from its bites are rare. Eight human bites were documented in the past century, and almost all happened when people prodded captive lizards with a finger or bare foot.1
Agar chaqsa
- Yarani yuv, odamni xotirjam tut va tibbiy yordam ol.
Har doim avval favqulodda yordam raqamiga qoʻngʻiroq qil (112, 000, 911). Bu birinchi yordam boʻyicha umumiy maslahat, tibbiy maslahat emas. Birinchi yordam asoslari
Xavfsiz boʻl
- Hech qachon yovvoyi hayvonga tegma, uni tutma yoki jigʻiga tegma, hatto kichkina boʻlsa ham va hatto uxlayotgan yoki oʻlik koʻrinsa ham.
- Unga joy ber. Agar duch kelsang, xotirjam boʻl, sekin orqaga chekin va uni oʻz yoʻliga ketishiga qoʻy.
- Agar biri seni chaqsa: xotirjam boʻl, qimirlamay tur, favqulodda yordam raqamiga qoʻngʻiroq qil (112, 000, 911) yoki tezda kasalxonaga yet. U qanday koʻrinishda ekanini eslab qol, surat yordam beradi.
U seni ovlamoqchi emas. Zaharini ovqat tutish yoki oʻzini himoya qilish uchun ishlatadi va yashirinishni ancha afzal koʻradi. Xavfsiz qolish haqida batafsil
Dunyoning qayerida?
U qanchalik katta?
U qanchalik uzun?
U qanchalik ogʻir?
burnidan dumigacha tizilgan 2 ta uy mushugidek uzun
ketma-ket qoʻyilgan 5 ta banandek uzun
taxminan uy mushugiday ogʻir
100 metrni 140 soniyada bosib oʻtishi mumkin (eng tez odamga 9,6 soniya kerak)Mexican beaded lizard SEN bilan solishtirganda qanchalik katta?
Faqat brauzeringdagi hisob-kitob. Hech narsa saqlanmaydi va hech qayerga yuborilmaydi.
U qanchalik tez?
Faktlar
It is one of only two venomous beaded lizard species, and the only lizards known to have evolved an overt venom delivery system, along with the rest of its genus.1
Some compounds in its venom are being studied for possible treatments of diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and HIV. One of them, exendin-3, is the basis of the drug exenatide.1
The beaded lizard is immune to the effects of its own venom.1
It is larger than the Gila monster, with an average adult weight of 800 g, and large specimens exceed 2,000 g.1
Beaded lizards have forked pink tongues that they use to smell, with the help of a Jacobson's organ.1
Young beaded lizards are rarely seen, as they are believed to spend much of their early lives underground.1
Afsonalarni fosh qiluvchi
Afsona: The beaded lizard is more venomous than a rattlesnake, can cause lightning strikes with its tail, or can make a pregnant woman miscarry by looking at her.
Haqiqat: These beliefs are incorrect. Its venom is weak, and human deaths are rare.1
Zahar mutaxassislari uchun
- Ilmiy nomi
- Heloderma horridum
- Guruh
- Zaharli kaltakesaklar
- Oila
- Helodermatidae2
- Tartib
- Squamata
- Qitʼalar
- Shimoliy Amerika
- Chaqaloqlar
- It lays clutches of 2 to 30 eggs in late summer or early fall, and the eggs hatch the following spring or summer.1
- Tabiatda ahvoli qanday
- Threatened (Mexican law, category A). Listed on Appendix II of CITES.1
- Odamlar uchun xavf
- 3 / 5: Jiddiy3
Faktlar qayerdan olingan
- Mexican beaded lizard (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Heloderma horridum (iNaturalist): nomlar va tasnif.
- Venom Wiki: xavf darajasi, odatiy oʻlcham va taxminiy tezlik bizning oʻz baholarimiz. Ularni qanday hisoblashimizni koʻr: Xavfni qanday baholaymiz.
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