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Burmese Python (13), NPSPhoto, R. Cammauf (9101584016)🐍

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SpeciesPythonidae
Reptiles

🐍Burmese python

Python bivittatus Kuhl, 1820

버마비단뱀(Burmese python)은 비단뱀과에 딸린 뱀으로, 동남아시아 아열대 지방에 서식한다. 세계에서 크기로 다섯 손가락 안에 꼽힌다. 2009년까지는 인도비단뱀의 아종으로 취급되었으나 현재는 별개의 종으로 분류되고 있다.

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Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2012.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
198 kg
Body length
5 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
28 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Burmese python

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

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

Maximum lifespan
28 yearsmaximum recorded
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Diet
Carnivorous
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Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Foraging mode
AMB
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Venomous
No
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Volume l
198 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 Burmese python yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyPythonidae
  5. ›genusPython
  6. ›speciesPython bivittatus
Full lineage
  1. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  2. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  3. familyPythonidae
  4. genusPython
All 13 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. familyPythonidae
  13. genusPython
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Burmese Python (13), NPSPhoto, R. Cammauf (9101584016)A chital doe (Axis axis) nabbed by a burmese python (Python bivittatus) at Pilibhit tiger reserve
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