🦎Gila monster
Boncuklu kertenkele veya Gila canavarı (Heloderma suspectum) , Amerika Birleşik Devletleri'nin güneybatısında ve Meksika'nın kuzeybatısındaki Sonora eyaletinde yaşayan zehirli bir kertenkele türüdür. 56 santimetre (22 in) boyunda, tipik olarak yavaş hareket eden bir sürüngendir. Amerika Birleşik Devletleri'ne özgü tek zehirli kertenkeledir. Zehirli yakın akrabaları olan dört boncuklu kertenkele (hepsi Heloderma horridumun eski alt türleri) Meksika ve Guatemala'da yaşar. Gila canavarı doğası gereği yavaştır, bu nedenle genellikle tehlikeli değildir ve çok nadiren insanlar için gerçek bir tehdit oluşturur. Bununla birlikte kötü bir üne sahiptir ve türlerin Arizona'da eyalet yasası tarafından korunmasına rağmen bazen öldürülürler.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2007.
- Body mass
- 0.55 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 29 years
Everything we know about the Gila monster
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.55 kgrecord 0.98 kg · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Maximum lifespan29 yearsrecord 48 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
DietCarnivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCathemeralReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeACTReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousYesReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Snout–vent length0.36 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female0.3 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l0.6 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 Gila monster yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classSquamata
- ›familyHelodermatidae
- ›genusHeloderma
- ›speciesHeloderma suspectum
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderAnguimorpha
- familyHelodermatidae
- genusHeloderma
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderAnguimorpha
- familyHelodermatidae
- genusHeloderma
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