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Dispholidus typus🐍

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SpeciesColubridae
Reptiles

🐍Boomslang

Dispholidus typus (Smith, 1828)

Dispholidus typus, unique représentant du genre Dispholidus, est une espèce de serpent venimeux de la famille des Colubridae. On considère qu'elle est étroitement apparentée aux genres Thelotornis, Thrasops, Rhamnophis et Xyelodontophis, avec lesquels elle forme la tribu des Dispholidini. Son nom vernaculaire français est Serpent des arbres ou Boomslang. Son nom signifie serpent arboricole en afrikaans et en néerlandais (boom signifiant arbre et slang serpent).

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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vs you
≈ 1/16th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
3.77 kg
Body length
1.85 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
8.7 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Boomslang

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

Body mass
3.77 kgrecord 0.56 kg · ReptTraits
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

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

Body length
1.85 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
Details ↓

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

Maximum lifespan
8.7 yearsrecord 8.7 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
Diurnal
ReptTraits
Details ↓

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

Venomous
Yes
ReptTraits
Details ↓

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

Snout–vent length
0.86 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
Details ↓

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

Volume l
3.8 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 Boomslang yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusDispholidus
  6. ›speciesDispholidus typus
Full lineage
  1. superorderLepidosauria
  2. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  3. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  4. genusDispholidus
All 12 branches ↓
  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. genusDispholidus
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In other languages
Dispholidus typus (fr), 非洲樹蛇 (zh), Dispholidus typus (tr), Dispholidus typus (it), Boomslang (sv), Boomslang (de) … and 20 more languages
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Dispholidus typusBoomslang (Dispholidus typus) at Nairobi Snake Park 1Boomslang (Dispholidus typus) at Nairobi Snake Park 2
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