AnimalvsAnimal
GaboonViper🐍

Photo: No machine-readable author provided · Public domain

SpeciesViperidae
Reptiles

🐍Gaboon viper

Bitis gabonica Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854

가봉북살무사(학명: Bitis gabonica) 또는 가분살무사는 살무사과에 속하는 뱀의 일종이다. 가봉과 카메룬 일대에서 서식하며, 사막이나 건조림, 또는 열대우림에서 주로 산다. 전체적인 색은 고동색, 황토색 내지는 연갈색으로, 세모꼴의 머리에는 뿔이 나 있으며, 몸의 무늬 때문에 위장술이 뛰어나다. 땃쥐류와 작은 설치류를 포식한다. 2m가 넘는 개체들도 많은 대형종이며, 온순해서 사람을 문 사례는 드물지만, 독은 사람의 심장 조직을 마비시키기 때문에 한 번 물리면 사망률이 굉장히 높으며 매우 위험하다.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Videos
None yet
Photos
2
Measurements
7
vs you
≈ 1/26th of your weight
Also called
Bitis gabonica, Gaboon Adder
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
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
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Gaboon viper

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

Body mass
2.38 kgrecord 2.88 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
1.8 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
Details ↓

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

Maximum lifespan
18 yearsrecord 22 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
Nocturnal
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
0.33 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
Details ↓

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

Volume l
2.4 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 Gaboon viper yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyViperidae
  5. ›genusBitis
  6. ›speciesBitis gabonica
Full lineage
  1. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  2. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  3. subfamilyViperinae
  4. genusBitis
All 14 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. familyViperidae
  13. subfamilyViperinae
  14. genusBitis
More

More about the Gaboon viper

In other languages
żmija gabońska (pl), ביטיס גבוני (he), Vipère du Gabon (fr), 가봉북살무사 (ko), Bitis gabonica (es), gaboni vipera (hu) … and 23 more languages
More photos
GaboonViperBitis gabonica
All 2 photos in the gallery →
Videos

No videos of the Gaboon viper yet.

We have 44,653 videos so far, and none of them features this animal yet.

All videos →
Tools

Compare the Gaboon viper

Pick a tool — the Gaboon viper is already selected.

Side by side

Compare every stat with any other animal.

998 animals to compareOpen →
Who's bigger?

Stand them on the same floor and see who's bigger.

404th heaviest of 783Open →
Scaling lab

How speed, brain and bite scale with body size. This animal isn't in the sample yet.

Not in the sampleOpen →
Tree of life

See where it sits in the tree of life.

14 branchesOpen →