🐍Boa constrictor
紅尾蚺（學名：Boa constrictor）是蛇亞目蚺科蚺屬下的一種蚺蛇，又稱紅尾蟒、巨蚺，無毒，主要分布於中美洲、南美洲及加勒比海附近的一些島嶼。此蛇有多種顏色，而且體型龐大，是相當矚目的蛇類。目前共有9個亞種已被確認，其中哥倫比亞紅尾蚺（B. c. imperator）已獨立出去成為單個物種哥倫比亞紅尾蚺（Boa imperator）。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- Body mass
- 3.53 kg
- Body length
- 1.85 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 40 years
Everything we know about the Boa constrictor
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass3.53 kgrecord 35 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 length1.85 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan40 yearsrecord 40 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Gestation125 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Litter sizeabout 35AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Activity cycleNocturnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeMixedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousNoReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Danger to humansharmlessSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Snout–vent length1.66 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l3.5 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 Boa constrictor yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- genusBoa
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- genusBoa
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