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Hornviper Cerastes cerastes🐍

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SpeciesViperidae
Reptiles

🐍Cerastes cerastes

Cerastes cerastes Linnaeus, 1758

Cerastes cerastes, la Vipère à cornes, est une espèce de serpents de la famille des Viperidae. C'est un serpent venimeux qui vit dans les déserts d'Afrique du Nord et du Moyen-Orient. Elle chasse à l'affût, généralement cachée sous le sable.

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≈ 1/170th of your weight
Also called
horned desert viper, Saharan horned viper
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
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
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Everything we know about the Cerastes cerastes

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Body mass
0.37 kgmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Body length
0.89 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
18 yearsrecord 18 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

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

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

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

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

Snout–vent length
0.53 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.4 Laverage
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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.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyViperidae
  5. ›genusCerastes
  6. ›speciesCerastes cerastes
Full lineage
  1. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  2. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  3. subfamilyViperinae
  4. genusCerastes
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  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. familyViperidae
  13. subfamilyViperinae
  14. genusCerastes
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In other languages
Sarvikyy (fi), Wüsten-Hornviper (de), Vipère à cornes (fr), עכן חרטומים (he), szarvasvipera (hu), Cerastes cerastes (it) … and 19 more languages
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Hornviper Cerastes cerastesHorned desert viper (Cerastes cerastes), Israel 02
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