Pseudonaja textilis   Werrington Sydney 2023. g🐍

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SpeciesElapidae
Reptiles

🐍Eastern brown snake

Pseudonaja textilis (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)

东方褐蛇(英語:Eastern brown snake),又名东部拟眼镜蛇,是眼镜蛇科中毒蛇类的一个物种。该物种源自澳大利亚东部和中部以及新几内亚南部。1854年,三位法国動物學家安德烈·马里·康斯坦·迪梅里、加布里埃尔·比布龙和奥古斯特·迪梅里首次对东方褐蛇进行了详细的描述。成年东方褐蛇往往身材较为细长,可生长至2米(6.6英尺)。其表面的颜色从淡褐色至黑色不等,而其底部则为淡乳黄色,且通常带有橙色或灰色的斑点。除了茂密的森林之外,东部褐蛇在大多数栖息地都可以发现。它们通常出现在農田及城市郊区,因为这些地方经常有小家鼠出没,而小家鼠是它们主要的猎物。该物种属于卵生物种。國際自然保護聯盟将其列为无危物种,尽管其在新几内亚地区的身份地位尚且未知。 根据其对老鼠皮下的半数致死量,东方褐蛇被认为是仅次于内陆太攀蛇的世界第二大毒陆蛇,在澳大利亚所有被蛇咬死的人当中,有大约60%的人都被此蛇咬死。其毒液的主要作用是对其它生物的循环系统进行破坏,导致其出现凝血病、出血、循环系统衰竭以及心搏停止等症状,其毒液的主要成分之一是凝血酶原酶複合物,這種複合物可分解凝血酶。

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vs you
≈ 1/37th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
1.68 kg
Body length
2.2 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eastern brown snake

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

Body mass
1.68 kgmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Body length
2.2 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
15 yearsmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
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

Snout–vent length
1.02 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female1.1 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
  • Male1.02 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l
1.7 Laverage
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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 brown snake yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyElapidae
  5. ›genusPseudonaja
  6. ›speciesPseudonaja textilis
Full lineage
  1. superorderLepidosauria
  2. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  3. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  4. genusPseudonaja
All 12 branches ↓
  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. genusPseudonaja
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Pseudonaja textilis (fr), Pseudonaja textilis (pt), източна псевдоная (bg), idänruskokäärme (fi), Östliche Braunschlange (de), Doğu kahverengi yılanı (tr) … and 16 more languages

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