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Bungarus caerulus🐍

Photo: Jayendra Chiplunkar · CC BY-SA 3.0

SpeciesElapidae
Reptiles

🐍Common Krait

Bungarus caeruleus (Schneider, 1801)

青環蛇（學名：Bungarus caeruleus），又名印度環蛇、普通環蛇，是一種主要分佈在印度及鄰近地區的環蛇。這種蛇的毒性非常強，牠是印度「四大毒蛇」 的成員之一且是其中LD50毒性強度之首，在十多種環蛇品種當中，牠也是最常造成嚴重蛇傷的一種。

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≈ 1/54th of your weight
Also called
Common Indian krait
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
1.15 kg
Body length
1.75 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
17 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common Krait

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.15 kgrecord 0.97 kg · ReptTraits
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
1.75 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
Details ↓

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

Maximum lifespan
17 yearsrecord 17 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Activity cycle
Nocturnal
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

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

Volume l
1.2 Laverage
Details ↓

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 Common Krait yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyElapidae
  5. ›genusBungarus
  6. ›speciesBungarus caeruleus
Full lineage
  1. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  2. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  3. subfamilyBungarinae
  4. genusBungarus
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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. subfamilyBungarinae
  13. genusBungarus
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In other languages
Bongare indien (fr), 印度环蛇 (zh), Vanlig krait (sv), közönséges krait (hu), Bungarus caeruleus (it), Bungarus caeruleus (vi) … and 16 more languages
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