Yellow-lipped sea krait
The yellow-lipped sea krait is a highly venomous sea snake. It lives in tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific, between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. It spends much of its time underwater hunting, but it comes ashore to digest food, rest and breed.1

Com reconèixer-lo
- Black head with a yellow upper lip and snout. The yellow extends back above the eye.1
- Upper body is a bluish grey, with black rings of about the same width along its length. The belly is yellowish.1
- Paddle-shaped tail, adapted for swimming.1
- Between 21 and 25 rows of overlapping scales run along the middle of the body.1
Sovint es confon amb: The yellow-lipped New Caledonian sea krait is similar. It has fewer rows of scales, and its scales narrow or fail to meet. The dark bands of the yellow-lipped sea krait meet across the belly.1
Poder del verí
El verí surt pels ullals o les dents quan mossega.
Què fa el seu verí?
Its venom is a very powerful neurotoxic venom, which attacks the nerves. It blocks signals between nerves and muscles, which causes paralysis. In mice, lethal doses caused lethargy, paralysis and convulsions in quick succession before death.1
Com de perillós és per a les persones?
Perill per a les persones: Molt perillósPot matar una persona que no rep tractament.Fewer bites are recorded from this snake than from cobras and vipers, because it is less aggressive and tends to avoid people. Bites usually happen when it is accidentally grabbed. Most sea snake bites happen when fishermen try to untangle the snakes from their nets.1
Què fa quan té por?
It is not aggressive and only attacks when it feels threatened, and its tail moves and looks like its head, which can fool predators.1
Si mossega
- Immobilització amb pressió: embolica amb una bena elàstica ferma la mossegada i després tota l'extremitat, posa-hi una fèrula i mantén la persona completament quieta fins que arribi l'ajuda.
- Treu la persona de l'aigua i porta-la de pressa a un hospital.
Truca sempre primer al número d'emergències (112, 000, 911). Això són pautes generals de primers auxilis, no consells mèdics. Primers auxilis bàsics
Estigues segur
- No toquis, atrapis ni molestis mai un animal salvatge, encara que sigui petit i encara que sembli adormit o mort.
- Deixa-li espai. Si en trobes un, mantén la calma, recula a poc a poc i deixa que segueixi el seu camí.
- Si te'n mossega un: mantén la calma, no et moguis, truca al número d'emergències (112, 000, 911) o ves de pressa a un hospital. Recorda com era, una foto ajuda.
No va a per tu. Fa servir el verí per caçar o per defensar-se, i prefereix mil vegades amagar-se. Més sobre com estar segur
On del món?
Que gran és?
Quant fa de llarg?
fa de llarg com 3 gats de casa del nas a la cua
fa de llarg com 8 plàtans en fila
podria nedar la llargada d'una piscina gran (50 m) en 43 segonsQue gran és Yellow-lipped sea krait comparat amb TU?
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Com de ràpid va?
Dades
Eels from New Guinea, where this snake lives, tolerated doses of its venom about 750 times larger than eels from the Caribbean, where it does not live.1
Snakes moved 5.3 km away from their home islands in Fiji all returned to their home islands, taking an average of 30.7 days.1
It hunts underwater but returns to land to digest food, shed its skin and breed.1
In the Philippines, these snakes are caught for their skin and meat. The meat is smoked and exported for use in Japanese cuisine.1
Females are much larger than males, with an average length of 142 cm compared with 87.5 cm for males.1
It is the most common sea krait found in New Zealand, where it is protected under the Wildlife Act 1953.1
Desmuntamites
Mite: Sea snakes are aggressive and attack people often.
Veritat: This snake is not aggressive. It avoids people and usually bites only when it is accidentally grabbed or feels threatened.1
Per a experts en verins
- Nom científic
- Laticauda colubrina
- Grup
- Serps marines
- Família
- Elapidae2
- Ordre
- Squamata
- Continents
- Oceà Pacífic, Oceà Índic, Mar de les Filipines, Mar de la Xina Meridional, Mar del Corall, Mar d'Andaman, Mar de Timor i d'Arafura, Golf de Bengala, Els oceans
- Cries
- It lays eggs, as many as 10 in a clutch, in crevices where they stay until they hatch. Only two nests have been reported in the wild across its range.1
- Perill per a les persones
- 4 / 5: Molt perillós3
D'on surten les dades
- Yellow-lipped sea krait (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Laticauda colubrina (iNaturalist): noms i classificació.
- Venom Wiki: el nivell de perill, la mida típica i la velocitat estimada són nostres. Mira com els calculem: Com valorem el perill.
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