🐍Gaboon viper
Bitis gabonica, la Vipère du Gabon, est une espèce de serpents de la famille des Viperidae. Ce serpent venimeux est issu des forêts tropicales Sub-saharienne. Le plus grand et lourd représentant de la sous-famille des Viperinae, la vipère du Gabon mesure en moyenne 120 cm de longueur, bien qu'elle puisse rarement atteindre 180 cm. Elle possède les plus longs crochets venimeux parmi les serpents et produit la plus grande quantité de venin. Serpent à la parure extrêmement colorée, qui lui donne un camouflage efficace sur les sols feuillus d'Afrique équatoriale, c'est un animal aux mœurs nocturnes et plutôt calme.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- Body mass
- 2.38 kg
- Body length
- 1.8 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 18 years
Everything we know about the Gaboon viper
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass2.38 kgrecord 2.88 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 length1.8 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan18 yearsrecord 22 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 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
Snout–vent length0.33 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Volume l2.4 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 Gaboon viper yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- subfamilyViperinae
- genusBitis
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- familyViperidae
- subfamilyViperinae
- genusBitis
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