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Emerald horned pitviper

Ophryacus smaragdinus

Malunga negama: Its scientific name combines Greek and Latin words meaning 'brow' or 'needle' (for the horn-like scales over its eyes) and 'emerald-green' (for its body colour).1

Kufuna ugqirhaKunqabile ukuba sibulale, kodwa ukulunywa kufuna ugqirha.

Ii-pit viper

Ukuluma

Ingozi ebantwini: Kubi kakhuluUkulunywa kufuna ugqirha. Ukufa kunqabe kakhulu.

The emerald horned pit viper is a pit viper, a type of snake with heat-sensing pits between its eyes and nostrils. It lives only in the mountains of eastern Mexico, where its bright green body helps it blend into the forest. It is special because it is found nowhere else in the world.1

Sihlala

Mountains of eastern Mexico: east-central Hidalgo, west-central Veracruz, north-east Puebla and north-central Oaxaca1

uMntla Melika

Ekhaya

It lives in montane cloud forest, humid pine-oak woodland and pine forest with secondary vegetation (plant growth that has regrown after earlier disturbance). It is mostly terrestrial, so it spends more time on the ground than in trees.1

Ubude

45 cm ukuya ku-50 cm (1,5 ft ukuya ku-1,6 ft)1

Esona santya siphezulu

malunga ne-3,3 km/h (2,1 mph)

Emhlabeni, uqikelelo nje

Ifoto ka-Emerald horned pitviper — Emerald horned pitviper. Ifoto: Alan Rockefeller. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Indlela yokusiqaphela

Body is emerald or olive green, though it can sometimes be brown or tan.1
Has 37 to 46 dark blotches on the back, outlined in black, which join to form a wavy dark stripe along the middle of the back.1
Has a distinctive white, cream or pale yellow triangular marking on the side of the head.1
Has a horn-like scale above each eye that does not touch the eye.1
Has no rattle on its tail. Juveniles are grey in colour.1

Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba

Ukuluma

Ityhefu iphuma ngamazinyo aso etyhefu okanye ngamazinyo aso xa siluma.

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: Kubi kakhuluUkulunywa kufuna ugqirha. Ukufa kunqabe kakhulu.

Ukuba siyaluma

Gcina umntu engashukumi kwaye ezolile, gcina ilungu elilunyiweyo kwinqanaba lentliziyo, susa imisesane nezinto eziqinileyo, uze umse esibhedlele ngokukhawuleza.

Soloko utsalela inombolo kaxakeka kuqala (112, 000, 911). Esi sisikhokelo soncedo lokuqala ngokubanzi, asilocebiso lwezonyango. Iziseko zoncedo lokuqala

Hlala ukhuselekile

Ungaze uchukumise, ubambe okanye uqhule isilwanyana sasendle, nokuba sincinci, kwaye nokuba sibonakala silele okanye sifile.
Sinike indawo. Ukuba udibana naso, hlala uzolile, buyela umva kancinci kwaye usiyeke sihambe ngendlela yaso.
Ukuba siyakuluma: hlala uzolile, musa ukushukuma, tsalela inombolo kaxakeka (112, 000, 911) okanye uye esibhedlele ngokukhawuleza. Khumbula ukuba sasikhangeleka njani, ifoto iyanceda.

Asikuzingeli. Sisebenzisa ityhefu yaso ukubamba ukutya okanye ukuzikhusela, kwaye singakhetha ukuzimela. Okungakumbi malunga nokuhlala ukhuselekile

Phi emhlabeni?

IAfrika IAsiya IYurophu uMntla Melika uMzantsi Melika IOstreliya neOceania

Sikhulu kangakanani?

Side kangakanani?

ubude obulingana neebhanana eziyi-3 zilandelelanaubude obulingana neebhloko zokudlala zokwakha eziyi-16 zilandelelanasingagqiba iimitha ezili-100 ngemizuzwana eyi-110 (owona mntu ukhawulezayo udinga i-9,6)

U-Emerald horned pitviper mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?

Zizibalo nje kwibhrawuza yakho. Akukho nto igcinwayo okanye ithunyelwa naphi na.

Sikhawuleza kangakanani?

Ufudo malunga ne-0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Emerald horned pitviper malunga ne-3,3 km/h (2,1 mph)

Umntu ohambayo malunga ne-5 km/h (3,1 mph)

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

Young snakes are grey, and they take on the green or brown adult colours as they grow.1

Its scientific name refers to the horn-like scales above its eyes, which look like small brows or needles.1

Its common name comes from its emerald-green body colour.1

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi: Ophryacus smaragdinus
Iqela: Ii-pit viper
Usapho: Viperidae2
Ucwangco: Squamata
Amazwekazi: uMntla Melika
Ingozi ebantwini: 3 / 5: Kubi kakhulu3

Apho iinyaniso zivela khona

Ophryacus smaragdinus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Ophryacus smaragdinus (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
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