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Salazar's pit viper

Trimeresurus salazar

名字的由来： It is named after Salazar Slytherin, a character from the Harry Potter series, who was famous for being a Parselmouth, someone who can talk to snakes.1

需要看医生很少致命，但被咬了要去看医生。

蝮蛇

咬伤吃：肉

对人的危险: 严重被咬了要去看医生。死亡非常罕见。

Salazar's pit viper is a slim, green venomous snake. Scientists first found it in 2019 in the lowlands of north-east India. It is special because it is a new species, named after a character from the Harry Potter books.1

生活在

Eastern Himalayas and north-east India, including Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura. Also in Bhutan and Chhattisgarh, India.1

亚洲

首页

It lives in lowland areas, at about 172 metres above sea level in the places where it was first recorded. It is nocturnal, and has been seen coiled on shrubs at night. Its habitat is under threat from road building, farming and hydroelectric projects.1

长度

36 cm到42 cm (1.2 ft到1.4 ft)1

最高速度

约 3.3 公里/小时（2.1 英里/小时）

在陆地上, 粗略估计

它吃什么？

The diet of pit vipers in the genus Trimeresurus includes lizards, amphibians, birds, rodents and other small mammals.1

Salazar's pit viper的照片 — Salazar's pit viper。照片：[Photo by Aamod Zambre and Chintan Seth, Eaglenest Biodiversity Project] Mirza ZA, Bhosale HS, Phansalkar PU, Sawant M, Gowande GG, Patel H (2020) A new species。 CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

怎样认出它

Its head is dark green, and the rest of its body is yellowish green.1
Males have a reddish-orange stripe along the side of the head and body, and a rusty red-orange tail. Females lack these markings.1
Juveniles are brightly coloured, and the males' head stripe is much more prominent.1
Adults reach about 36 to 41 cm long, with a triangular head that is clearly distinct from the neck.1

常被误认为： It is often confused with the white-lipped pit viper (Trimeresurus albolabris), the Trimeresurus septentrionalis and the Trimeresurus insularis. Salazar's pit viper has more teeth in its lower and upper jaw, a reddish-orange head stripe in males, and a smaller hemipenis (the male reproductive organ).1

毒液之力

咬伤

它咬的时候，毒液通过毒牙或牙齿出来。

它对人有多危险？

对人的危险: 严重被咬了要去看医生。死亡非常罕见。

如果它咬人

让人保持安静不动，被咬的肢体与心脏保持同一高度，摘下戒指和紧身物品，尽快送医院。

一定先拨打你的急救电话（112、000、911）。这里是一般急救指导，不是医疗建议。急救基础

注意安全

永远不要摸、抓或逗弄野生动物，即使是很小的，即使它看起来在睡觉或已经死了。
给它留出空间。如果遇到它，保持冷静，慢慢后退，让它走自己的路。
如果被它咬了：保持冷静，保持不动，拨打你的急救电话（112、000、911）或尽快去医院。记住它长什么样，拍张照片会有帮助。

它不是冲着你来的。它用毒液捕猎或保护自己，而且它更愿意躲起来。更多安全知识

在世界哪里？

非洲亚洲欧洲北美洲南美洲澳大利亚和大洋洲

它有多大？

它有多长？

和 2.5 根香蕉首尾相接一样长和 13 块玩具积木排成一排一样长110 秒就能跑完 100 米（最快的人需要 9.6 秒）

Salazar's pit viper和你比起来有多大？

只是在你的浏览器里算一算。什么都不会被保存或发送到任何地方。

它有多快？

一只陆龟 约 0.3 公里/小时 (0.19 mph)

Salazar's pit viper 约 3.3 公里/小时 (2.1 mph)

一个在走路的人 约 5 公里/小时 (3.1 mph)

值得了解

事实

The house of Slytherin at Hogwarts is shown with a snake and linked to the colour green, which is why this snake was named after him.1

Two specimens of this species had been in the Natural History Museum of Denmark since they were collected by a Danish naturalist between 1811 and 1816. They had been wrongly labelled as white-lipped pit vipers.1

Pit vipers in the Trimeresurus genus look so alike that they are hard to tell apart in the field, so their true number may be higher than known.1

It was first found in 2019 during a reptile expedition to the Eastern Himalayas, and it was the fifth new reptile species found in Arunachal Pradesh that year.1

谣言粉碎机

谣言： The two museum specimens from Denmark were white-lipped pit vipers.

真相： They were Salazar's pit vipers, a new species. They had been wrongly labelled, and were only recognised as new after comparison and DNA analysis.1