🐍Banded krait
金環蛇（學名：Bungarus fasciatus），俗稱金甲帶、金包鐵、金腳帶、花扇柄（客家話）、雨傘柄（潮州話）或佛蛇等，是環蛇屬的一種，是毒性很強的蛇。一般來說，金環蛇和其他環蛇屬的蛇一樣，動作緩慢，不愛攻擊人類，主要以小型脊椎動物為食。金環蛇的毒性較其近親銀環蛇弱，但仍然屬劇毒蛇，而數量也較銀環蛇為稀有。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2013.
- Body mass
- 3.11 kg
- Body length
- 2.25 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 13 years
Everything we know about the Banded krait
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass3.11 kgrecord 1.78 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 length2.25 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan13 yearsrecord 13 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 cycleNocturnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeACTReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousYesReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l3.1 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 Banded krait yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- subfamilyBungarinae
- genusBungarus
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- subfamilyBungarinae
- genusBungarus
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