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

Photo: Everglades NPS · Public domain

SpeciesPythonidae
Reptiles

🐍Burmese python

Python bivittatus Kuhl, 1820

De donkere tijgerpython (Python bivittatus) is een slang uit de familie van pythons (Pythonidae). Het is een van de grootste slangen ter wereld. De donkere tijgerpython komt voor in Zuidoost-Azië en is geclassificeerd als kwetsbaar. Tot 2009 werd de donkere tijgerpython gezien als ondersoort van de tijgerpython, maar nu wordt hij als aparte soort gezien.

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Measurements
8
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≈ 3.2× your weight
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
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

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

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

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

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

Venomous
No
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

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.

Where it sits

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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蟒 (zh), Python bivittatus (de), Pyton birmański (pl), Python bivittatus (fr), Python bivittatus (es), Python molurus bivittatus (vi) … and 19 more languages
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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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