🐍Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
Crotalus adamanteus är en ormart som beskrevs av Palisot de Beauvois 1799. Crotalus adamanteus ingår i släktet skallerormar och familjen huggormar. IUCN kategoriserar arten globalt som livskraftig. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life. Det svenska trivialnamnet östlig diamantskallerorm förekommer för arten. Denna skallerorm förekommer i sydöstra USA från södra North Carolina över Florida till östra Louisiana. Den lever även på flera mindre öar i området. Habitatet utgörs av barrskogar och ekskogar med gräs, Serenoa repens eller buskar som undervegetation. Arten uppsöker även fuktiga savanner. Individerna vistas främst på marken och de kravlar ibland på växter. De vilar i naturliga håligheter eller i bon som lämnades av andra djur.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2007.
- Body mass
- 5.67 kg
- Body length
- 2.52 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 23 years
Everything we know about the Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass5.67 kgrecord 7.63 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 length2.52 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan23 yearsrecord 23 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 cycleDiurnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeAMBReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousYesReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l5.7 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 Eastern diamondback rattlesnake yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classSquamata
- ›familyViperidae
- ›genusCrotalus
- ›speciesCrotalus adamanteus
- 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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