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Texas coral snake

Micrurus tener
Davart il num: The Latin name tener means "soft or delicate", referring to the snake's graceful features.1
Dovra in mediDarar mortal, ma ina morsa sto vegnir tractada dad in medi.
Serps da coral MorsasMangia: Charn
Privel per umans: GravIna morsa sto vegnir tractada dad in medi. Cas da mort èn fitg rars.

The Texas coral snake is a venomous snake with bright black, yellow and red rings. It lives in the southern and southwestern United States and in parts of northeastern and central Mexico. Its bite can cause paralysis, so it is important to recognise it and keep well away.1

Viva en
Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas in the USA; Guanajuato, Morelos, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas in Mexico1
America dal Nord
Pagina iniziala
It spends most of its time hiding in leaf litter and under logs. It can be seen on the surface after heavy rains, when night-time temperatures rise above 26 °C (78 °F).1
Lunghezza
1,2 m (4 ft)1
Sveltezza maximala
circa 4,9 km/h (3 mph)
Sin terra, stima approximativa
Tge mangia el?
Its main food is other snakes, mostly small burrowing species, and it also preys on venomous snakes such as copperheads. It sometimes eats small lizards, and rarely eats rodents. It is cannibalistic.1
Propi!Foto da Texas coral snake
Texas coral snake. Foto: The original uploader was Dawson at English Wikipedia.. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons.

Co renconuscher el

  • Black, yellow and red rings, with the rings running onto the belly.1
  • Smooth scales, a rounded head and round pupils.1
  • Somewhat larger and stouter than the eastern coral snake.1
  • Males are typically smaller than females.1
  • Shy and secretive, and mostly active at night.1

Savens confundì cun: Nonvenomous snakes copy the coral snake's colours as a form of Batesian mimicry. In the United States, the venomous coral snakes can be told apart by red rings touching yellow rings. The common rhyme "red and yellow, kill a fellow" is not always accurate because colours vary, and relying on it is dangerous.1

Forza dal tissi

Morsas

Il tissi vegn or tras ses dents da tissi u ses dents, cura ch'el morda.

Tge fa ses tissi?

The snake has a pair of fixed, grooved fangs at the front of the upper jaw, and venom is injected through them. Its venom contains a neurotoxin, which attacks the nerves, and a myotoxin, which damages muscle. Bite victims may experience paralysis or myolysis (muscle breakdown), which can be potentially lethal.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: GravIna morsa sto vegnir tractada dad in medi. Cas da mort èn fitg rars.

Before antivenom was available, the fatality rate of coral snake bites was estimated at 10%. Deaths were mainly caused by breathing or heart failure from paralysis. A single bite can deliver 10–12 mg of dry venom, about twice the lethal dose for an adult human of 5–7 mg. Many bites deliver no venom at all, known as dry bites.1

Bunas novitads: ils medis han in medicament (antiserum) u in tractament per quai.1

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

When grabbed suddenly, or sometimes just when touched, it may thrash about, swing around and bite.1

Sch'el morda

  • Remove any jewellery from a bitten limb, in case of severe swelling. Wrap the bite area moderately tightly in a wide cloth, and move the bitten limb as little as possible. Take the bite victim to the nearest hospital as soon as possible for advanced treatment, such as antivenom.1
  • Tegna la persuna immobila e quieta e va spert en in ospital, era sche la morsa para pitschna: ils sintoms pon cumenzar uras pli tard.

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?

Texas coral snake circa 1,2 m lung (4 ft)In chaun circa 1 m (3,3 ft)In creschì circa 1,7 m (5,6 ft)
uschè lung sco 2,5 giats da chasa dal nas fin a la cuauschè lung sco 7 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess currer 100 meters en 73 secundas (l'uman il pli svelt dovra 9,6)

Quant grond è Texas coral snake cumpareglià cun TAI?

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Quant svelt è el?

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Fatgs

1

A single bite can deliver about twice the lethal dose for an adult human, yet many bites inject no venom at all.1

2

The Texas coral snake eats other snakes, including venomous ones, and will even eat its own kind.1

3

Colour variants exist in the wild, including albino, anerythristic, pastel and completely black (melanistic) snakes.1

Destructur da mits

Mit: "Red and yellow, kill a fellow. Red on black, friend of Jack" is a reliable way to tell a coral snake from a harmless look-alike.

Vardad: The rhyme is not always accurate because colour patterns vary, and relying on it is dangerous to both people and snakes.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific
Micrurus tener
Gruppa
Serps da coral
Famiglia
Elapidae2
Urden
Squamata
Continents
America dal Nord
Poppins
It is oviparous, meaning it lays eggs.1
Privel per umans
3 / 5: Grav3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

  1. Texas coral snake (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Micrurus tener (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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