🦎Komodo dragon
Komodonvaraani eli jättiläisvaraani (Varanus komodoensis) on varaaneihin kuuluva matelija ja maailman suurin lisko. Tämä harvinainen matelija kasvaa 2–3 metrin pituiseksi ja painaa 70–160 kiloa. Naaras munii heinä–elokuussa 15–30 munaa syvään maakuoppaan. Kuoriuduttuaan poikaset kiipeävät puihin, missä ne viettävät ensimmäiset elinvuotensa suojassa aikuisilta yksilöiltä. Vuonna 2023 niitä on alle 1400 yksilöä , ja laji on erittäin uhanalainen.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- Body mass
- 87 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- 149 N
- Maximum lifespan
- 62 years
Everything we know about the Komodo dragon
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass87 kgrecord 110 kg · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: questionable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Bite force149 NDetails ↓Hide ↑
MEASURED in vivo, highest of 200 bite peaks across 10 captive animals of 25-75 kg, contact anterior on the tooth row. Strikingly weak for the body size -- the paper's point is that the animal supplements a poor bite with a 336 N ventrocaudal pull. Finite-element modelling of one individual gives 39 N at optimal gape, which the authors treat as concordant. Ignore the 696 N figure scaled from alligators; the same paper rejects it.
Source: D'Amore, Moreno, McHenry & Wroe 2011, PLoS ONE 6(10):e26226 · see citation
Maximum lifespan62 yearsrecord 62 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: questionable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Gestation49 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: questionable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Litter sizeabout 22AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: questionable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
DietCarnivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Activity cycleDiurnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Foraging modeMixedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Snout–vent length1.57 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
By sex
- Female1.08 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l87 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 Komodo dragon yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classSquamata
- ›familyVaranidae
- ›genusVaranus
- ›speciesVaranus komodoensis
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- superfamilyVaranoidea
- familyVaranidae
- genusVaranus
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderAnguimorpha
- superfamilyVaranoidea
- familyVaranidae
- genusVaranus
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