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Turkish deathstalker

Leiurus abdullahbayrami

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Escorpións

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The Turkish deathstalker is a scorpion from the family Buthidae. Its venom is highly toxic to humans, but scientists also use scorpion venom in medical research. It lives in dry, rocky places and usually keeps away from people.1

Vive en

Turkey, in dry, semi-arid regions1

Asia

Inicio

It lives in rocky areas with short, scattered plants, in semi-arid regions with dry, chalky (calcareous) soils. It tends to keep away from human settlements.1

Lonxitude

9 cm (3,5 in)3

tamaño típico de adulto

Velocidade máxima

uns 1,8 km/h (1,1 mph)

En terra, estimación aproximada

Que come?

Scorpions eat beetles, grasshoppers, locusts, centipedes, spiders and ants, and can eat small snakes, lizards or rodents if they can hold on long enough. They catch or crush their prey and inject venom to kill it. They are nocturnal and can go weeks or months between meals.1

Foto de Turkish deathstalker — Turkish deathstalker. Foto: Dalik Klavalav. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

Como recoñecelo

Brown front body section (cephalothorax), with a yellow head, legs and tail.1
The very last segment of the tail is brown instead of yellow.1
Its pincers and other body parts are yellowish, against a mostly black background on the front body and tail.1

Adoita confundirse con: It was once considered the same species as the deathstalker (L. quinquestriatus), but was reclassified as a separate species in 2009 based on mitochondrial DNA analysis. Its tail segments are shorter than those of the deathstalker.1

Poder da pezoña

Pica

A pezoña sae por un ferrete.

Que fai a súa pezoña?

Its venom comes from two venom glands and is mainly made of proteins. It stimulates voltage-gated sodium and potassium channels, which control the electrical signals in nerves and muscles. Symptoms can be severe: after a sting, pain can come in waves with seizures, and blisters can form at the site of the sting.1

Que perigoso é para as persoas?

Perigo para as persoas: Moi perigosoPode matar a unha persoa que non reciba tratamento.

Only a small portion of scorpions are harmful to humans, but this species' venom is very toxic and can cause severe symptoms from a single sting. The sting is much worse in children, and it may pose a serious health threat to infants because of their small body weight.1

Que fai cando ten medo?

Its venom is used for self-defence as well as for hunting.1

Se pica

Anyone who has been stung should have an early echocardiogram, which is a heart ultrasound, because the venom can affect the heart. In the case described, the patient was given sodium chloride (saline) and a local painkiller at hospital.1
Arrefría a picadura cunha bolsa de xeo e mantén a persoa quieta. Busca axuda médica rápido, sobre todo para nenos: algúns escorpións son mortais para os nenos.

Chama sempre primeiro ao teu número de emerxencias (112, 000, 911). Isto son consellos xerais de primeiros auxilios, non consello médico. Primeiros auxilios básicos

Mantente a salvo

Nunca toques, collas nin molestes un animal salvaxe, aínda que sexa pequeno e aínda que pareza durmido ou morto.
Déixalle espazo. Se atopas un, mantén a calma, recúa amodo e déixao ir polo seu camiño.
Se un te pica: mantén a calma, non te movas, chama ao teu número de emerxencias (112, 000, 911) ou vai rápido a un hospital. Lembra como era, unha foto axuda.

Non vai a por ti. Usa a súa pezoña para cazar comida ou para defenderse, e prefire con moito agocharse. Máis sobre como estar a salvo

En que lugar do mundo?

África Asia Europa América do Norte América do Sur Australia e Oceanía

Que tamaño ten?

Canto mide?

mide coma 3 pezas de construción de xoguete en filapodería percorrer 100 metros en 200 segundos (o humano máis rápido precisa 9,6)

Que tamaño ten Turkish deathstalker comparado CONTIGO?

Só son contas no teu navegador. Non se garda nin se envía nada a ningures.

Que rápido é?

Unha tartaruga uns 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Turkish deathstalker uns 1,8 km/h (1,1 mph)

Unha persoa camiñando uns 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

paga a pena sabelo

Datos

In one recorded case, a sting on the thumb of a 30-year-old man caused pain, reddening, seizures and blisters, and he was unable to move his arm up for a time.1

When a male wants to mate, he injects a small dose of venom into the female to calm her before they move together in a dance-like pattern.1

In tests on rats, the venom of this species had a greater effect than the venom of the Arabian fat-tailed scorpion (Androctonus crassicauda).1

Its venom is studied for treating nervous, immune, infection, cardiovascular and cancer (neoplastic) diseases.1

Birds, bats and mice prey on scorpions, which is why they are more active on moonless nights.1

Para expertos en pezoñas

Nome científico: Leiurus abdullahbayrami
Grupo: Escorpións
Familia: Buthidae2
Orde: Scorpiones
Continentes: Asia
Crías: The young, called scorplings, are born alive after 122 to 277 days, and a mother can give birth to 35 to 87 of them.1
Perigo para as persoas: 4 / 5: Moi perigoso3

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Leiurus abdullahbayrami (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Leiurus abdullahbayrami (iNaturalist): nomes e clasificación.
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