Common Krait (Bungarus caeruleus) | Snake | Wildkeeda

Common Krait (Bungarus caeruleus) | Snake | Wildkeeda

Common Krait

Bungarus caeruleus

VENOMOUS

At hatching 250-280mm (10-1 lin) Adults 1000mm (39in) Maximum 1750mm (69in)

Description

Smooth-scaled. Head slightly broader than neck, eye entirely black, round pupil not visible in life. Glossy black, pale faded bluish-gray or dark brownish-black above (often with blue iridescence) with narrow (sometimes paired) white cross-lines that continue to pointed tip of short tail. These lines usually absent on forebody or they are replaced by white vertebral spots. Uppermost scale row on back six-sided, broader than long, and much larger than adjacent scales. Underside glossy white or yellowish. Scales under tail entire and resemble belly scales (not divided by zigzag line running along middle). Young often marked throughout. Tongue pinkish-red.

Scalation

Scales in 15 : 15 : 15 rows, smooth. Ventrals 200-217 (234); anal undivided, subcaudals 33-52, entire. Preocular 1; postoculars 2; loreal absent; temporals 1+2, supralabials 7 (3 and 4 touching eye).

Behavior 

Nighttime; ready and dynamic around evening time. By day has been found resting in termite hills, rat tunnels, heaps of block and rubble, and surprisingly in moved up rugs. Regularly found in ranches and gardens close to water. Eats snakes (significantly different kraits), in some cases rodents, reptiles, and frogs. Male battle saw in January in Chennai. Lays 8-12 eggs in March-May which incubate around 60 days after the fact. The female stays with eggs during hatching. Produces the most strong toxin of all our property snakes. One of the Big Four medicinally significant snakes of India (for which counter-agent serum is accessible). Nibbles for the most part occur around evening time yet are not difficult like a cobra or snake chomp. There are numerous records of individuals snoozing on the ground being chomped by this snake. A presumed krait nibble should be treated at clinic immediately. 

Distribution

A large portion of territory India up to 1700m (5580ft), remarkable where the Banded Krait happens. Presumably missing in the Northeast above Assam. Likewise Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, 

Oris sa: Throughout Similipal; also throughout the state. Elsewhere in India: Throughout (except extreme Northeast India) Elsewhere outside: Pakistan Nepal, Bangladesh and Afghanistan

Copies 

Wolf snakes. Different kraits.