🐍Crotalus cerastes
A cascavel-chifruda, serpente-cascavel-de-chifres (em Portugal), ou sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes) é uma pequena cascavel que vive em tocas, com cerca de 75 cm de comprimento. Habita zonas áridas e desérticas da região Sudoeste dos Estados Unidos da América e Nordeste do México. As cascavel-chifrudas atravessam areia solta utilizando um raro movimento ondulado com as laterais de seus corpos que deixa uma sequência de trilhas como os degraus de uma escada de mão. As cobras passam as horas quentes do dia em tocas de camundongos ou enterradas na areia. Sua cor sarapintada de marrom tornam-nas criaturas com a metade do corpo coberta e difícil de serem vistas. Tarde da noite emergem e caçam roedores.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2007.
- Body mass
- 0.21 kg
- Body length
- 0.84 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 27 years
Everything we know about the Crotalus cerastes
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.21 kgrecord 0.31 kg · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Body length0.84 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan27 yearsrecord 27 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Activity cycleNocturnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeAMBReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousYesReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Snout–vent length0.43 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.2 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 Crotalus cerastes yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- subfamilyCrotalinae
- genusCrotalus
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- familyViperidae
- subfamilyCrotalinae
- genusCrotalus
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