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Bungarus caerulus🐍

Photo: Jayendra Chiplunkar · CC BY-SA 3.0

SpeciesElapidae
Reptiles

🐍Common Krait

Bungarus caeruleus (Schneider, 1801)

Der Gewöhnliche Krait (Bungarus caeruleus), auch als Indischer Krait bezeichnet, ist eine giftige Schlangenart aus der Familie der Giftnattern und zählt zur Gattung der Kraits. Bungarus caeruleus ist die Typusart der Gattung Bungarus und wurde wissenschaftlich erstmals im Jahre 1801 durch den deutschen Naturforscher Johann Gottlob Schneider beschrieben.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/54th of your weight
Also called
Common Indian krait
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
1.15 kg
Body length
1.75 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
17 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common Krait

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

Body mass
1.15 kgrecord 0.97 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
1.75 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
Details ↓

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

Maximum lifespan
17 yearsrecord 17 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

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

Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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
1.2 Laverage
Details ↓

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 Common Krait yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyElapidae
  5. ›genusBungarus
  6. ›speciesBungarus caeruleus
Full lineage
  1. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  2. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  3. subfamilyBungarinae
  4. genusBungarus
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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. subfamilyBungarinae
  13. genusBungarus
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In other languages
Bongare indien (fr), 印度环蛇 (zh), Vanlig krait (sv), közönséges krait (hu), Bungarus caeruleus (it), Bungarus caeruleus (vi) … and 16 more languages
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