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Alcatrazes lancehead

Bothrops alcatraz
Mayelana negama: Named after the Alcatrazes Islands, where it is found.1
Kudinga udokotelaKuyivelakancane ukuthi kubulale, kodwa ukulunywa kudinga udokotela.
Ama-pit viper UkulumaSidla: Inyama
Ingozi ebantwini: Kubi kakhuluUkulunywa kudinga udokotela. Ukufa kuyivelakancane kakhulu.

The Alcatrazes lancehead is a small pit viper, a venomous snake that senses heat with pits on its face. It lives only on Ilha Alcatrazes, a small island off the coast of southeastern Brazil. It is special because its island home has shaped it over thousands of years into a snake that stays small.1

Ihlala
Ilha Alcatrazes, one of four islands in the Alcatrazes Archipelago, about 35 km off the coast of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil1
INingizimu Melika
Ekhaya
It lives in low Atlantic Forest vegetation on Ilha Alcatrazes, an island of only 1.35 km². The highest point on the island is 266 metres above sea level.1
Ubude
50 cm (1.7 ft)1
Ijubane eliphezulu
cishe 3.3 km/h (2.1 mph)
Emhlabathini, isiqagela nje
Sidlani?
It eats small lizards, centipedes and amphibians. Its main food was rodents, but once it was isolated on the island it began eating cockroaches and centipedes as well.1
Ngempela!Isithombe sika-Alcatrazes lancehead
Alcatrazes lancehead. Isithombe: Douglas Bete. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Indlela yokusibona

  • A small pit viper, reaching a maximum length of about 46 cm in males and 50 cm in females.1
  • Relatively large eyes for its body size.1
  • Found only on the Alcatrazes Islands, so it is not expected anywhere else in Brazil.1

Ivamise ukudidaniswa ne: Its island population was once connected to the mainland, where the common Bothrops still lives. Its small size and large eyes set it apart from these larger relatives.1

Amandla obuthi

Ukuluma

Ubuthi buphuma ngamazinyo aso obuthi noma ngamazinyo uma siluma.

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: Kubi kakhuluUkulunywa kudinga udokotela. Ukufa kuyivelakancane kakhulu.

Uma siluma

  • Gcina umuntu engashukumi futhi ezolile, gcina isitho esilunyiwe sisezingeni lenhliziyo, khipha izindandatho nezinto eziqinile, bese umusa esibhedlela ngokushesha.

Njalo shayela kuqala inombolo yezimo eziphuthumayo (112, 000, 911). Lokhu kuyiseluleko sosizo lokuqala esijwayelekile, akusona iseluleko sezokwelapha. Izisekelo zosizo lokuqala

Hlala uphephile

  • Ungalokothi uthinte, ubambe noma ugcone isilwane sasendle, ngisho noma sincane, futhi ngisho noma sibukeka silele noma sifile.
  • Sinike isikhala. Uma uhlangana naso, hlala uzolile, uhlehle kancane bese usiyeka sihambe ngendlela yaso.
  • Uma sikuluma: hlala uzolile, ungashukumi, shayela inombolo yezimo eziphuthumayo (112, 000, 911) noma uye esibhedlela ngokushesha. Khumbula ukuthi besibukeka kanjani, isithombe siyasiza.

Asikuzingeli wena. Sisebenzisa ubuthi baso ukuze sibambe ukudla noma ukuzivikela, futhi singancamela ukucasha. Okwengeziwe mayelana nokuhlala uphephile

Sikhulu kangakanani?

Side kangakanani?

Alcatrazes lancehead ubude obucishe bube ngu-50 cm (1.7 ft)Ikati lasekhaya cishe 50 cm (1.6 ft)Inja cishe 1 m (3.3 ft)
side njengobhanana abangu-3 abalandelanayoside njengezitini zamathoyizi ezingu-16 ezilandelanayosingahamba amamitha ali-100 ngemizuzwana engu-110 (umuntu oshesha kunabo bonke udinga engu-9,6)

Alcatrazes lancehead mkhulu kangakanani uma uqhathanisa NAWE?

Yizibalo nje kusiphequluli sakho. Akukho okulondolozwayo noma okuthunyelwa ndawo.

Sishesha kangakanani?

kuhle ukwazi

Amaqiniso

1

Over time, isolated snakes shrank in size, a process known as allopatric speciation, because their food supply was less nutritious.1

2

About 15,000 years ago, rising seas cut the island off from the mainland, and its snakes became isolated.1

3

The island was once used as a naval target practice area.1

4

Its small size and relatively large eyes are considered juvenile (paedomorphic) features.1

Okongoti bobuthi

Igama lesayensi
Bothrops alcatraz
Iqembu
Ama-pit viper
Umndeni
Viperidae2
Ukuhleleka
Squamata
Amazwekazi
INingizimu Melika
Simo saso endle
Vulnerable (IUCN Red List)1
Ingozi ebantwini
3 / 5: Kubi kakhulu3

Lapho amaqiniso evela khona

  1. Bothrops alcatraz (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Bothrops alcatraz (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa ngezigaba.
  3. Venom Wiki: izinga lengozi, usayizi ojwayelekile nesiqagela sejubane kungokwethu. Bona ukuthi sikubala kanjani: Indlela esilinganisa ngayo ingozi.

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