Annulated sea snake
The annulated sea snake is a venomous snake that lives in the sea. It is found in shallow coastal waters from the Persian Gulf across South and Southeast Asia to New Guinea. It is special because it gives birth to live young in the water, and scientists have studied how it gets oxygen to its brain while under water.1

Co renconuscher el
- Greenish-olive above, with blackish or olive bars or rings across the body, broadest on the back.1
- Some snakes are yellowish instead, with a black band along the back and a few black bars on the neck.1
- The bars can be joined by a black band along the belly.1
- Adults can reach a head and body length of about 136 cm, with a tail of about 14 cm.1
Forza dal tissi
Il tissi vegn or tras ses dents da tissi u ses dents, cura ch'el morda.
Quant privlus è el per umans?
Privel per umans: Fitg privlusEl po mazzar ina persuna che na survegn nagin tractament.
Sch'el morda
- Immobilisaziun cun squitsch: envolva ina bandascha elastica ferma sur la morsa e lura vi da l'entir member ensi, fixescha el cun ina stecca e tegna la persuna dal tut immobila, fin che l'agid arriva.
- Porta la persuna or da l'aua e spert en in ospital.
Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid
Resta en segirezza
- Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
- Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
- Sch'in tal animal ta morda: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.
El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza
Nua sin il mund?
Quant grond è el?
Quant lung è el?
uschè lung sco 2,5 giats da chasa dal nas fin a la cua
uschè lung sco 8 bananas ina suenter l'autra
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Quant svelt è el?
Fatgs
A 2019 study found that this snake has a complex network of blood vessels in its head, called the Modified Cephalic Vascular Network (MCVN). It helps supply the brain with extra oxygen from water while the snake is under water.1
Its venom gland, spleen, lungs and skin all contain a natural antimicrobial peptide called Hc-CATH, which helps fight microbes.1
Sea snakes have immune systems that let them resist both land-based and sea-based germs, because they meet a different range of germs than land snakes do.1
Although it lives at sea, this snake is a true snake that gives birth to live young rather than laying eggs.1
The peptide Hc-CATH is made from a larger protein of 187 amino acids called vipericidin.1
Per experts da tissi
- Num scientific
- Hydrophis cyanocinctus
- Gruppa
- Serps da mar
- Famiglia
- Elapidae2
- Urden
- Squamata
- Continents
- Ocean Indic, Ocean Pacific, Mar d'Andaman, Mar da la China dal Sid, Mar da Coral, Mar Arab e Golf Persic, Golf dal Bengal, Ils oceans
- Poppins
- The young are born alive, in broods of 3 to 16, and each newborn is about 38 cm long.1
- Privel per umans
- 4 / 5: Fitg privlus3
Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs
- Hydrophis cyanocinctus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Hydrophis cyanocinctus (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
- Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.
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