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AZ Gila Monster 01🦎

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SpeciesHelodermatidae
Reptiles

🦎Gila monster

Heloderma suspectum Cope, 1869

美國毒蜥（學名：Heloderma suspectum）亦稱為希拉毒蜥或鈍尾毒蜥，英文有「Gila Monster」之稱，因為希拉河盆地（Gila River Basin）而得名。美國毒蜥是世界上僅有的三種毒蜥之一〈另两種是墨西哥毒蜥和危地馬拉珠毒蜥〉，主要就分佈在美國西部,南部各州,以莫哈維沙漠(Mojave)為中心,延伸進入墨西哥， 美國毒蜥有兩個亞種:分佈區北部的黑帶美國毒蜥(H. s. cinctum)和分佈區南部的網紋美國毒蜥(H. s. suspectum)。 美國毒蜥以小型鳥類，爬蟲類卵為主食。

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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≈ 1/110th of your weight
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2007.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Gila monster

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

Body mass
0.55 kgrecord 0.98 kg · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

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

Maximum lifespan
29 yearsrecord 48 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

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

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

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

Foraging mode
ACT
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
0.36 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female0.3 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l
0.6 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 Gila monster yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyHelodermatidae
  5. ›genusHeloderma
  6. ›speciesHeloderma suspectum
Full lineage
  1. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  2. infraorderAnguimorpha
  3. familyHelodermatidae
  4. genusHeloderma
All 13 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. infraorderAnguimorpha
  12. familyHelodermatidae
  13. genusHeloderma
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In other languages
Heloderma suspectum (es), Monstre de Gila (fr), heloderma arizońska (pl), 미국독도마뱀 (ko), הלודרמה מרירית (he), Gila (hu) … and 25 more languages
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AZ Gila Monster 01AZ Gila Monster 02Gila monster (54583488174)
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