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Crotalus adamanteus (7)🐍

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SpeciesViperidae
Reptiles

🐍Eastern diamondback rattlesnake

Crotalus adamanteus Palisot De Beauvois, 1799

Източната диамантена гърмяща змия (Crotalus adamanteus) е вид змия от семейство Отровници (Viperidae).

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Also called
Eastern diamond-backed rattlesnake, Eastern Diamond-backed Rattlesnake
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2007.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
5.67 kg
Body length
2.52 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
23 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eastern diamondback rattlesnake

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
5.67 kgrecord 7.63 kg · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
2.52 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
23 yearsrecord 23 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Foraging mode
AMB
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
Yes
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
5.7 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Eastern diamondback rattlesnake yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyViperidae
  5. ›genusCrotalus
  6. ›speciesCrotalus adamanteus
Full lineage
  1. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  2. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  3. subfamilyCrotalinae
  4. genusCrotalus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  12. familyViperidae
  13. subfamilyCrotalinae
  14. genusCrotalus
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In other languages
gyémánt csörgőkígyó (hu), cròtal adamantí (ca), chřestýš diamantový (cs), Diamant-Klapperschlange (de), Κροταλίας ο αδαμάντινος (el), Crotalus adamanteus (es) … and 17 more languages
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