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De Vis' banded snake

Denisonia devisi

名字的由來： Both the scientific name and one common name honour Charles Walter De Vis, the first director of the Queensland Museum, who first described the snake.1

需要看醫生很少致命，但被咬了需要看醫生。

澳洲的蛇

咬吃：肉

對人的危險: 嚴重被咬了需要看醫生。死亡案例非常罕見。

The De Vis' banded snake, also called the mud adder, is a venomous snake from eastern Australia. It lives in low-lying areas that flood in some seasons, and it hunts frogs. It is named after Charles Walter De Vis, the first director of the Queensland Museum.1

分布在

Eastern Australia: south-west Queensland, northern New South Wales, north-west Victoria and, more recently, South Australia1

澳洲與大洋洲

首頁

It lives in low-lying areas, particularly near sites that flood seasonally, and inhabits cracks in the soil. In Victoria it was found in floodplain vegetation on Wallpolla Island Park, near the Victoria-New South Wales border.1

長度

50 cm (1,6 ft)3

一般成體大小

最高速度

大約 6,1 km/h（3,8 mph）

在陸地上, 粗略估計

牠吃什麼？

It feeds mainly on frogs. It catches them by ambushing its prey.1

De Vis' banded snake 的照片 — De Vis' banded snake。照片：dhfischer。 CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎麼認出牠

Short, thick and slightly flat in body1
Eyes set at the top of the head, with a conspicuous iris1
Yellowish-brown to olive-green back, broken by irregular, ragged-edged, narrow dark bands1
Tail does not taper abruptly, and the head is not broad and triangular1

常被誤認為： It is sometimes confused with death adders, as both have thick, banded bodies. The De Vis' banded snake's tail does not taper abruptly, and its head is not broad and triangular.1

毒液力量

咬

咬的時候，毒液會從毒牙或牙齒出來。

牠對人有多危險？

對人的危險: 嚴重被咬了需要看醫生。死亡案例非常罕見。

如果牠咬人

加壓固定法：用彈性繃帶緊緊包住咬傷處，再往上包住整條手臂或腿，用夾板固定，並讓傷者完全不動，直到救援抵達。
不要清洗咬傷處：醫院可以檢驗留在皮膚上的毒液，選出正確的抗毒血清。

一定要先打緊急電話（112、000、911）。這是一般急救指引，不是醫療建議。急救基本知識

注意安全

絕對不要碰、抓或捉弄野生動物，就算是很小的動物，就算牠看起來在睡覺或已經死了也一樣。
給牠空間。如果遇到了，保持冷靜，慢慢往後退，讓牠自己離開。
如果被牠咬了：保持冷靜，保持不動，打緊急電話（112、000、911）或趕快去醫院。記住牠的樣子，有照片會很有幫助。

牠不是想來抓你。牠用毒液來捕捉食物或保護自己，而且牠更想躲起來。更多安全知識

在世界上的哪裡？

非洲亞洲歐洲北美洲南美洲澳洲與大洋洲

牠有多大？

牠有多長？

跟 3 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長跟 16 塊玩具積木排成一排一樣長可以在 59 秒內跑完 100 公尺（最快的人類需要 9.6 秒）

De Vis' banded snake 跟「你」比起來有多大？

只是在你的瀏覽器裡做算術。什麼都不會儲存，也不會傳送到任何地方。

牠有多快？

一個正在走路的人 大約 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

De Vis' banded snake 大約 6,1 km/h (3,8 mph)

騎腳踏車的小朋友 大約 12 km/h (7,5 mph)

值得知道

小知識

Its young are born fully formed, at an average total length of 11 cm.1

It is mostly active at night in warm weather, and it shelters in soil cracks.1

破解迷思

迷思： It is a death adder

真相： It is sometimes confused with death adders because both have thick, banded bodies. However, its tail does not taper abruptly and its head is not broad and triangular.1

給毒液專家

學名: Denisonia devisi
類群: 澳洲的蛇
家人: Elapidae2
排序: Squamata
各大洲: 澳洲與大洋洲
寶寶: It gives birth to fully formed live young. A litter has three to 11 babies, five on average.1
牠在野外的狀況: Least Concern (IUCN Red List and under Queensland's Nature Conservation Act 1992)1
對人的危險: 3 / 5: 嚴重3