🐍Golden lancehead

Bothrops insularis (Amaral, 1922)

גומצן אינסולאריס (שם מדעי: Bothrops insularis) הוא מין של נחש ארסי ממשפחת הצפעיים ומהסוג גומצן. נחש זה נדיר מאוד בטבע והוא חי רק באי איליה דה קיימדה גרנדה שלחופי סאו פאולו, ברזיל. כינויו של מין זה באנגלית הוא: "golden lancehead" - "גומצן ראש-חנית זהוב".

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vs you

≈ 1/74th of your weight

Also called

Bothrops insularis

Conservation status

CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing

Key measurements

Body mass: 0.84 kg
Body length: 1.18 m
Shoulder height: not recorded
Top speed: not recorded
Bite force: not recorded
Maximum lifespan: not recorded

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Everything we know about the Golden lancehead

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

Body mass

0.84 kgmaximum recorded

ReptTraits

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

Body length

1.18 mmaximum recorded

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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

Volume l

0.8 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 Golden lancehead yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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kingdomMetazoa
phylumChordata
subphylumCraniata
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
superclassSarcopterygii
superclassTetrapoda
orderSauria
superorderLepidosauria
orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
familyViperidae
subfamilyCrotalinae

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In other languages

jararaca-ilhoa (pt), arany lándzsakígyó (hu), златна змия (bg), Insel-Lanzenotter (de), jararaca-ilhoa (fr), Bothropoides insularis (it) … and 16 more languages