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SpeciesViperidae
Reptiles

🐍Bothrops asper

Bothrops asper (Garman, 1883)

Bothrops asper is een giftige slang uit de familie adders (Viperidae) en de onderfamilie groefkopadders (Crotalinae).

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≈ 1/60th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
1.04 kg
Body length
2.5 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Bothrops asper

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

Body mass
1.04 kgrecord 7.5 kg · 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

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

Maximum lifespan
20 yearsrecord 21 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
Nocturnal
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

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

Volume l
1 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 Bothrops asper yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyViperidae
  5. ›genusBothrops
  6. ›speciesBothrops asper
Full lineage
  1. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  2. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  3. familyViperidae
  4. subfamilyCrotalinae
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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. subfamilyCrotalinae
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Terciopelo-Lanzenotter (de), Bothrops asper (ca), Bothrops asper (es), Bothrops asper (fr), andoki lándzsakígyó (hu), テルシオペロ (ja) … and 17 more languages
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27829 close encounter with the dreaded terciopelo!27833 Terciopelo portraitBothrops asper (Fer de Lance Viper), Ecuador © Robert Wedderburn
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