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Field's horned viper

Pseudocerastes fieldi
Malunga negama: The name fieldi honours American anthropologist Henry Field, who collected the first specimen used to describe the species.1
Kufuna ugqirhaKunqabile ukuba sibulale, kodwa ukulunywa kufuna ugqirha.
Ingozi ebantwini: Kubi kakhuluUkulunywa kufuna ugqirha. Ukufa kunqabe kakhulu.

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

Sihlala
Sinai Peninsula, Israel, Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia, northwestern Iraq, and possibly southern Syria1
IAsiya
Ekhaya
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
Ubude
60 cm (2 ft)3
ubungakanani obuqhelekileyo besilwanyana esikhulileyo
Esona santya siphezulu
malunga ne-3,4 km/h (2,1 mph)
Emhlabeni, uqikelelo nje
Ngokwenene!Ifoto ka-Field's horned viper
Field's horned viper. Ifoto: unknown. CC0, iNaturalist.

Indlela yokusiqaphela

  • 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

Sidla ngokubhidaniswa no: 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

Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba

Ukuluma

Ityhefu iphuma ngamazinyo aso etyhefu okanye ngamazinyo aso xa siluma.

Ityhefu yaso yokuluma okanye yokuhlaba yenza ntoni?

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

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

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

Ukuba siyaluma

  • 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
  • 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

Sikhulu kangakanani?

Side kangakanani?

Field's horned viper malunga ne-60 cm ubude (2 ft)Ikati yasekhaya malunga ne-50 cm (1,6 ft)Inja malunga ne-1 m (3,3 ft)
ubude obulingana neebhanana eziyi-3 zilandelelanasingagqiba iimitha ezili-100 ngemizuzwana eyi-110 (owona mntu ukhawulezayo udinga i-9,6)

U-Field's horned viper mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?

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

Sikhawuleza kangakanani?

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

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

Umqhekezi weentsomi

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

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

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi
Pseudocerastes fieldi
Iqela
Ii-viper namarhamba
Usapho
Viperidae2
Ucwangco
Squamata
Amazwekazi
IAsiya
Iintsana
It is oviparous, meaning it lays eggs.1
Ingozi ebantwini
3 / 5: Kubi kakhulu3

Apho iinyaniso zivela khona

  1. Field's horned viper (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Pseudocerastes fieldi (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
  3. Venom Wiki: inqanaba lengozi, ubungakanani obuqhelekileyo noqikelelo lwesantya zezethu. Bona indlela esizifumana ngayo: Indlela esilinganisa ngayo ingozi.

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