🐍Cerastes cerastes
افعی شاخدار بیابانی (نام علمی: Cerastes cerastes) که با نامهای افعی شاخدار صحرا و افعی شاخدار صحرایی نیز شناخته میشود، گونهای مار سمی از تیرهٔ گرزهماران است که بومی بیابانهای شمال آفریقا و بخشهایی از شبهجزیرهٔ عربستان و شام است. این گونه معمولاً بهسادگی با یک جفت «شاخ» برآمده در بالای چشمها شناخته میشود، هرچند افراد بدون شاخ نیز در جمعیتهای آن دیده میشوند. افعی شاخدار بیابانی از فراوانترین مارهای سمی بیابانهای شمال آفریقا، بهویژه صحرای بزرگ افریقا، به شمار میرود و تاکنون سه زیرگونه برای آن توصیف شده است.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- Body mass
- 0.37 kg
- Body length
- 0.89 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 18 years
Everything we know about the Cerastes cerastes
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.37 kgmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Body length0.89 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan18 yearsrecord 18 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Activity cycleCathemeralReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeMixedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousYesReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Snout–vent length0.53 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.4 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 Cerastes cerastes yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- subfamilyViperinae
- genusCerastes
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- familyViperidae
- subfamilyViperinae
- genusCerastes
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