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Saw Scaled Viper Echis carinatus🐍

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SpeciesViperidae
Reptiles

🐍Echis carinatus

Echis carinatus (Schneider, 1801)

Песчаная эфа (лат. Echis carinatus) — ядовитая змея рода эфы из семейства гадюковые. Одна из 10 самых ядовитых змей. Единственный представитель рода, распространённый на территории бывшего СССР — в Туркменистане, Узбекистане и Таджикистане представлен подвид среднеазиатская эфа (Echis carinatus multisquamatus), который иногда рассматривается как отдельный вид.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.14 kg
Body length
0.8 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
24 years
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Everything we know about the Echis carinatus

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Body mass
0.14 kgrecord 0.27 kg · ReptTraits
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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
0.8 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
24 yearsrecord 24 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
Diurnal
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

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

Snout–vent length
0.55 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.1 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 Echis carinatus yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyViperidae
  5. ›genusEchis
  6. ›speciesEchis carinatus
Full lineage
  1. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  2. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  3. subfamilyViperinae
  4. genusEchis
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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. subfamilyViperinae
  14. genusEchis
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अफई (hi), efa piaskowa (pl), Echis carinatus (fr), Песчаная эфа (ru), אפעה קריני (he), Çöl engereği (tr) … and 21 more languages
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