Alias:Acrochordus granulatus,Wart-scaled snake
Outline:Squamata
Family:Scrofaidae Scrofacoidea
length:60-250cm
Weight:No verification information
Life:No verification information
IUCN:LC
Little wart snake (pinyin: luǒ lín shé), English name: Little wart snake, is a snake species that lives entirely in water.
The main food of the scrofula is fish, but there are a lot of these snakes, and they live in groups, so when fishermen fish, they will also salvage the scrofula, and many fishermen initially thought it was an eel. Compared with its peers, the scrotal snake is very good at swimming. The main reason is that its skin is very loose. It is very good at hunting. Sometimes it will lurk in the riverbed, waiting for the prey to approach slowly, and then attack with one move, biting the prey tightly until the prey can't breathe and dies.
The scrotal snake is an oviparous animal. It lays eggs in October every year. It can lay up to eight snakes each time. The length of the newly born snake is 220 mm. The newly born snake cannot go out to find food, nor can it crawl. It can be said that the newly born snake cannot even open its eyes. Females and males will mate in caves and lay eggs in caves. The nest of the scrotal snake is very simple, and generally chooses a large tree hole or a cave.
The nest of the scrofula snake is not covered with any material, so the eggs usually fall directly to the ground and are incubated by the female. The entire incubation process takes about 25 days. The little snake can find food on its own after one month, and can open its eyes and crawl on its own after half a month. When the little snake reaches sexual maturity, it will separate from its parents and find a partner, and start a new round of reproduction.
The scrofula snake was listed as a key wild animal in 2000, and was also added to the Red List, which is a near-threatened animal. At the same time, the state has also formulated some criminal sanctions for hunters. Many criminals use the skin of scrofula snakes to make bags, resulting in a gradual decrease in the number of scrofula snakes.
Listed in the "National List of Terrestrial Wildlife with Important Economic and Scientific Research Value" issued by the State Forestry Administration of China on August 1, 2000.
Listed in the 2013 Red List of Endangered Species of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) ver3.1--Near Threatened (NT).
Listed in the China Biodiversity Red List-Vertebrate Volume, with an assessment level of Vulnerable (VU).
Listed in the second level of the "National Key Protected Wildlife List of China".
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