🐍Lachesis muta
Lachesis muta, también conocida como serpiente de cascabel muda, verrugosa del oriente, cuaima, surucucú, pucarara, cascabel pua, matabuey o shushupe (Lachesis muta) es una especie de serpiente de la familia Viperidae. Es la víbora más larga del mundo, y posiblemente la segunda serpiente venenosa más grande, tan solo superada por la cobra real. Se halla en Centroamérica y Sudamérica. Se reconocen dos subespecies, existiendo según algunos herpetólogos una tercera subespecie endémica de Bolivia, a la que correspondería el nombre científico Lachesis muta bolivianus. Además es una de las especies de serpiente con el veneno mas letal, aunque los casos de mordeduras de esta especie son poco frecuentes. Todos los casos de mordedura de esta serpiente deben clasificarse como "muy graves" ya que por lo general los pronosticos son muy malos y se ha calculado que la tasa de mortalidad alcanza un 80%,. Sin embargo, evita el contacto con los seres humanos. Es sigilosa y ataca a sus presas durante la noche.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- Body mass
- 5.82 kg
- Body length
- 3.6 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 32 years
Everything we know about the Lachesis muta
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass5.82 kgrecord 22 kg · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Body length3.6 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan32 yearsrecord 32 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Gestation77 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Litter sizeabout 10AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Activity cycleNocturnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
VenomousYesReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Volume l5.8 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 Lachesis muta yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- subfamilyCrotalinae
- genusLachesis
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- familyViperidae
- subfamilyCrotalinae
- genusLachesis
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