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

Mmene ungaizindikirire
- 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
Mphamvu ya ululu
Ululu umatuluka kudzera m'mano ake ikaluma.
Ululu wake umachita chiyani?
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
Ndi yoopsa bwanji kwa anthu?
Ngozi kwa anthu: YoopsaKulumidwa kumafuna dokotala. Imfa ndi zosowa kwambiri.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
Nkhani yabwino: madokotala ali ndi mankhwala (antivenom) kapena chithandizo cha ichi.1
Imachita chiyani ikachita mantha?
It is not considered aggressive but will defend itself if threatened.1
Ikaluma
- The venom is neutralised with sea snake antivenom (Enhydrina schistosa). If that is not available, tiger snake or polyvalent antivenom should be used.1
- Kumanga ndi kusasuntha (pressure immobilisation): manga bandeji yotanuka mwamphamvu pamene walumidwa kenako mmwamba chiwalo chonse, ika chogwiriziza (splint), ndipo munthuyo akhale chete osasuntha konse mpaka thandizo litafika.
- Tulutsa munthuyo m'madzi ndipo mufikitse kuchipatala mwachangu.
Nthawi zonse yamba wayimbira nambala yadzidzidzi (112, 000, 911). Awa ndi malangizo wamba a chithandizo choyamba, osati malangizo a dokotala. Zoyambira za chithandizo choyamba
Khala wotetezeka
- Usakhudze, kugwira kapena kuseweretsa nyama yakuthengo, ngakhale yaing'ono, ndipo ngakhale ikuoneka ngati yagona kapena yafa.
- Ipatse malo. Ukakumana nayo, khala chete, bwerera m'mbuyo pang'onopang'ono ndipo uilole ipite njira yake.
- Ikakuluma: khala chete, usasunthe, imbira nambala yadzidzidzi (112, 000, 911) kapena pita kuchipatala mwachangu. Kumbukira m'mene inkaonekera, chithunzi chimathandiza.
Sikufuna kukuvulaza. Imagwiritsa ntchito ululu wake kugwira chakudya kapena kudziteteza, ndipo imakonda kwambiri kubisala. Zambiri za kukhala wotetezeka
Kuti padziko lapansi?
Ndi yaikulu bwanji?
Ndi yaitali bwanji?
yaitali ngati amphaka apakhomo 2 mphuno ndi mchira motsatizana
yaitali ngati nthochi 5 zoyalidwa motsatizana
ingasambire kutalika kwa dziwe lalikulu losambira (50 m) m'masekondi 49Yellow-bellied sea snake ndi yaikulu bwanji poyerekeza ndi IWE?
Ndi masamu chabe mu msakatuli wako. Palibe chomwe chimasungidwa kapena kutumizidwa kwina.
Imathamanga bwanji?
Mfundo
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
Kuthetsa nthano zabodza
Nthano yabodza: Sea snakes drink seawater and filter out the salt through a special salt gland in the lower jaw.
Zoona: 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
Za akatswiri a ululu
- Dzina la sayansi
- Hydrophis platurus
- Gulu
- Njoka za m'nyanja
- Banja
- Elapidae2
- Dongosolo
- Squamata
- Makontinenti
- Nyanja ya Pacific, Nyanja ya Indian, Nyanja ya Coral, Nyanja ya South China, Nyanja ya Philippine, Nyanja ya Andaman, Nyanja ya Arabia ndi Gulf ya Persia, Nyanja ya Timor ndi Arafura, Nyanja ya Bengal, Gulf ya California, Nyanja zikuluzikulu
- Ana akhanda
- It gives birth to live young (ovoviviparous) after a gestation period of around 6 months, and females bear them in tidal pools.1
- Ngozi kwa anthu
- 3 / 5: Yoopsa3
Kumene mfundo zimachokera
- Yellow-bellied sea snake (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Hydrophis platurus (iNaturalist): mayina ndi magulu a sayansi.
- Venom Wiki: mlingo wa ngozi, kukula wamba ndi kuyerekeza kwa liwiro ndi zathu. Ona mmene timazipezera: Mmene timayezera ngozi.
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Imaluma