Yellow-bellied sea snake
The yellow-bellied sea snake is a sea snake with a strongly venomous bite. It lives in warm tropical oceans and spends its whole life at sea, floating on the surface. Its yellow belly and brown back make it easy to tell apart from most other sea snakes.1

Nola ezagutu
- Sharply bicoloured: black or dark brown on the back, with a yellow or brown underside.1
- The yellow belly may have black spots, bars or crossbars, or a narrow black stripe along the back.1
- Has a flattened, paddle-shaped tail for swimming.1
- Adults are usually up to about 72 cm (males) or 88 cm (females) long.1
Pozoi-ahalmena
Pozoia letaginetatik edo hortzetatik ateratzen da kosk egiten duenean.
Zer egiten du bere pozoiak?
The venom is highly potent and contains several different neurotoxins, which attack the nerves, along with two other isotoxins. Sea snake venom can damage skeletal muscle, which may release myoglobin into the urine (myoglobinuria), and can cause neuromuscular paralysis or direct kidney damage. Juvenile venom is on average less concentrated than adult venom.1
Zein arriskutsua da pertsonentzat?
Arriskua pertsonentzat: LarriaKoska batek medikua behar du. Heriotzak oso arraroak dira.Bites are rare. The most common victims are fishermen who try to remove the snakes from fishing nets. No deaths have been recorded from bites in Australian waters.1
Albiste ona: medikuek badute sendagai bat (antipozoia) edo tratamendu bat honetarako.1
Zer egiten du beldurtzen denean?
It is not considered aggressive but will defend itself if threatened.1
Kosk egiten badu
- The venom is neutralised with sea snake antivenom (Enhydrina schistosa). If that is not available, tiger snake or polyvalent antivenom should be used.1
- Presio-immobilizazioa: bildu benda elastiko sendo bat koskaren gainean eta gero gorputz-adar osoan gora, immobilizatu ferula batekin, eta eutsi pertsona guztiz geldi laguntza iritsi arte.
- Atera pertsona uretatik eta eraman ospitalera azkar.
Deitu beti lehenik zure larrialdi-zenbakira (112, 000, 911). Lehen sorospenei buruzko orientabide orokorra da hau, ez mediku-aholkua. Lehen sorospenen oinarriak
Egon seguru
- Ez ukitu, ez harrapatu eta ez zirikatu inoiz animalia basati bat, txikia izan arren, eta lo edo hilda dagoela badirudi ere.
- Utzi tartea. Bat aurkitzen baduzu, egon lasai, egin atzera poliki eta utzi bere bidetik joaten.
- Batek kosk egiten badizu: egon lasai, egon geldi, deitu zure larrialdi-zenbakira (112, 000, 911) edo joan ospitalera azkar. Gogoratu nolakoa zen, argazki batek laguntzen du.
Ez dabil zure atzetik. Pozoia janaria harrapatzeko edo bere burua babesteko erabiltzen du, eta askoz nahiago du ezkutatu. Seguru egoteari buruz gehiago
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igerileku handi baten luzera (50 m) igerian egin lezake 49 segundotanZein handia da Yellow-bellied sea snake ZUREKIN alderatuta?
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It can swim backwards, which is an unusual ability and a distinguishing feature of this species.1
It breathes partly through its skin, taking oxygen from seawater while diving and swimming at the surface.1
It can survive severe dehydration for up to 7 months during seasonal drought.1
Large groups of thousands have been seen floating together on the surface in oceanic drift lines.1
It is the only sea snake known to have reached the Hawaiian Islands.1
Strays wash up so often on New Zealand's coasts that it is considered native to the country and protected under the Wildlife Act 1953.1
Mito-hauslea
Mitoa: Sea snakes drink seawater and filter out the salt through a special salt gland in the lower jaw.
Egia: Sea snakes drink only fresh water. The salt gland was once thought to filter salt, but it is not used for that purpose. The yellow-bellied sea snake likely drinks from freshwater lenses that form on the sea surface after heavy rain.1
Pozoi-adituentzat
- Izen zientifikoa
- Hydrophis platurus
- Taldea
- Itsas sugeak
- Familia
- Elapidae2
- Ordena
- Squamata
- Kontinenteak
- Ozeano Barea, Ozeano Indikoa, Koralen itsasoa, Hego Txinako itsasoa, Filipinetako itsasoa, Andaman itsasoa, Arabiako itsasoa eta Persiar golkoa, Timor eta Arafura itsasoak, Bengalako golkoa, Kaliforniako golkoa, Ozeanoak
- Kumeak
- It gives birth to live young (ovoviviparous) after a gestation period of around 6 months, and females bear them in tidal pools.1
- Arriskua pertsonentzat
- 3 / 5: Larria3
Datuak nondik datozen
- Yellow-bellied sea snake (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Hydrophis platurus (iNaturalist): izenak eta sailkapena.
- Venom Wiki: arrisku-maila, ohiko tamaina eta abiadura-kalkulua geureak dira. Ikusi nola kalkulatzen ditugun: Nola baloratzen dugun arriskua.
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