Toxic zoanthid
Palythoa toxica is a small, crust-like sea animal, called a zoanthid, that grows on rocks. It lives in Hawaii and is special because it is the species from which the very poisonous substance palytoxin was first discovered and isolated.1

Ndenge ya koyeba yango
- It grows as a flat, encrusting layer over rock.1
- It has a firm, tough outer covering.1
- Its polyps are partly sunk into a cushiony mat that spreads across the rock and contains sand grains and bits of debris.1
- Each polyp has a broad mouth disc with a fringe of tentacles.1
- Its colour varies but is usually cream, grey or pale brown.1
Makasi ya poison
Loposo na yango ezali na poison. Ezali likama kosimba yango, kolamba yango to kolia yango.
Poison na yango esalaka nini?
It is not venomous in the sense of injecting venom with a bite or sting. It contains palytoxin, one of the most poisonous substances known.1
Likama na yango mpo na bato ezali boni?
Likama mpo na bato: Likama mingiEkoki koboma moto oyo azwi bosalisi te.Palytoxin is one of the most poisonous substances known, and people have been poisoned by handling this animal in reef aquariums.1
Soki moto asimbi to alei yango
- Soki moto alei yango to azali na bilembo sima ya kolia yango: benga nimero ya urgence na yo to centre anti-poison sika sika.
Benga ntango nyonso nimero ya urgence liboso (112, 000, 911). Oyo ezali toli ya lisalisi ya liboso, ezali toli ya monganga te. Makambo ya moboko ya lisalisi ya liboso
Zala na libateli
- Ata mokolo moko te, simba, kanga to silikisa nyama ya zamba te, ata ya moke, mpe ata soki emonani lokola elali to ekufi.
- Tika yango esika. Soki okutani na moko, zala kimia, zonga sima malembe mpe tika ekende nzela na yango.
- Soki osimbi yango to olie yango: kofrotter miso to monoko na yo te, sukola maboko na yo mpe luka lisalisi ya monganga.
Ezali koluka yo te. Poison na yango ezali kaka mpo ete eloko moko te elia yango. Makambo mosusu mpo na komibatela
Wapi na mokili?
Monene na yango boni?
Molai na yango boni?
mokuse koleka mosapi na yo ya mokeToxic zoanthid azali monene boni soki tokokanisi na YO?
Kaka ba calcul na navigateur na yo. Eloko moko te ebombamaka to etindamaka esika moko.
Mbangu na yango boni?
Makambo ya solo
Early Hawaiians used this animal to poison the tips of their weapons, and a legend says warriors could break a taboo and dip their spear tips into its pool when under severe threat.1
In 1961 researchers took specimens from the pool despite local advice, and the laboratories of the Hawaiian Institute of Marine Biology on Coconut Island were destroyed by fire on that same day.1
Palythoa toxica is the species in which palytoxin was first discovered and first isolated.1
Unlike a related species, P. toxica is equally toxic all year round rather than changing with the seasons.1
Palytoxin has also been found in other Palythoa species, some algae, and certain crabs and fish, and it has been suggested that a dinoflagellate in the genus Ostreopsis produces the toxin.1
Esika makambo euti
- Palythoa toxica (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Palythoa toxica (iNaturalist): bankombo mpe classification.
- Venom Wiki: niveau ya likama, monene ya momesano mpe kokanisa ya mbangu ezali ya biso moko. Tala ndenge tolukaka yango: Ndenge tomekaka likama.
Likambo nyonso na lokasa oyo ezali na nimero oyo elakisi source na yango. Soki tosali libunga, limbisa biso, tozali bato oyo balingaka banyama, zulunale ya siansi te. Yebisa biso na [email protected] mpe tokobongisa yango.
Poison na loposo na yango