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Stokes' sea snake

Hydrophis stokesii
Davart il num: It is named after Royal Navy Admiral John Lort Stokes, and both its scientific and common names honour him.1
Po mazzarPo ta mazzar senza tractament. Sch'el ta morda, tschertga spert agid.
Privel per umans: Fitg privlusEl po mazzar ina persuna che na survegn nagin tractament.

Stokes' sea snake is a large, heavy snake that lives in the sea. It is one of the heaviest sea snakes, and it has the longest fangs of any marine snake. It lives in tropical waters from India to the South China Sea, and in the warm seas around northern Australia.1

Viva en
India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka to the South China Sea and Strait of Taiwan, and all tropical Australian waters1
Ocean Pacific, Ocean Indic, Mar da Coral, Mar da Timor e d'Arafura
Pagina iniziala
It lives in tropical oceanic waters. People most often meet it as bycatch, when it is caught by accident in fishing nets, for example in Australian prawn fisheries.1
Lunghezza
1,5 m (4,9 ft)1
Sveltezza maximala
circa 4,5 km/h (2,8 mph)
Nudar, stima approximativa
Propi!Foto da Stokes' sea snake
Stokes' sea snake. Foto: Rosario Douglas. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

  • It is one of the heaviest and stoutest sea snakes.1
  • Its colour varies widely, from cream to brown to black.1
  • It often has broad black cross bands across the back, or black rings.1
  • Its belly has an enlarged ridge, called a keel, which is often broken into two wart-like bumps.1
  • It can reach a total length of 1.5 metres.1

Forza dal tissi

Morsas

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.

No human deaths have been reported as caused by Stokes' sea snake. Its fangs are long enough to pierce a wetsuit.1

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

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

Stokes' sea snake circa 1,5 m lung (4,9 ft)In chaun circa 1 m (3,3 ft)In creschì circa 1,7 m (5,6 ft)
uschè lung sco 3 giats da chasa dal nas fin a la cuauschè lung sco 8 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess nudar la lunghezza d'in grond bassin (50 m) en 40 secundas

Quant grond è Stokes' sea snake cumpareglià cun TAI?

Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn memorisà u tramess.

Quant svelt è el?

bun da savair

Fatgs

1

It has the longest fangs of any marine snake, long enough to pierce a wetsuit.1

2

Groups of thousands sometimes form and drift together in slicks, about a metre long, in the Strait of Malacca.1

3

It is one of the heaviest and stoutest sea snakes.1

4

Its colour is highly variable, which makes it hard to identify by colour alone.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific
Hydrophis stokesii
Gruppa
Serps da mar
Famiglia
Elapidae2
Urden
Squamata
Continents
Ocean Pacific, Ocean Indic, Mar da Coral, Mar da Timor e d'Arafura, Ils oceans
Poppins
It is ovoviviparous, meaning the eggs hatch inside the mother, and it produces small broods of five young each mating season.1
Privel per umans
4 / 5: Fitg privlus3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

  1. Stokes's sea snake (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Hydrophis stokesii (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
  3. 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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