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Yellow-bellied sea snake

Hydrophis platurus
Davart il num: Platurus comes from Ancient Greek words meaning 'flat' and 'tail', which refers to its flattened, paddle-shaped tail.1
Dovra in mediDarar mortal, ma ina morsa sto vegnir tractada dad in medi.
Serps da mar MorsasMangia: Peschs
Privel per umans: GravIna morsa sto vegnir tractada dad in medi. Cas da mort èn fitg rars.

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

Viva en
Tropical oceans across the Indo-Pacific, the Pacific coasts of the Americas, the eastern coast of Africa, and parts of the Atlantic and Caribbean through occasional strays.1
Ocean Pacific, Ocean Indic, Mar da Coral, Mar da la China dal Sid, Mar da las Filippinas, Mar d'Andaman, Mar Arab e Golf Persic, Mar da Timor e d'Arafura, Golf dal Bengal, Golf da California
Pagina iniziala
It is a free-floating ocean snake that drifts on surface currents, often along oceanic drift lines and in floating mats of sea kelp. People most often meet it when it is washed up on beaches or caught in fishing nets.1
Lunghezza
88 cm (2,9 ft)1
Sveltezza maximala
circa 3,7 km/h (2,3 mph)
Nudar, stima approximativa
Tge mangia el?
It hunts pelagic fish that come to the surface to shelter. It floats still on the surface to attract them, then catches prey with a backwards swimming motion and a rapid lunge of the jaws.1
Propi!Foto da Yellow-bellied sea snake
Yellow-bellied sea snake. Foto: Aloaiza. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

  • 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

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 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

Quant privlus è el per umans?

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

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

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

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

It is not considered aggressive but will defend itself if threatened.1

Sch'el morda

  • The venom is neutralised with sea snake antivenom (Enhydrina schistosa). If that is not available, tiger snake or polyvalent antivenom should be used.1
  • 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?

AfricaAsiaEuropaAmerica dal NordAmerica dal SidAustralia ed OceaniaOcean PacificOcean IndicMar da CoralMar da la China dal SidMar da las FilippinasMar d'AndamanMar Arab e Golf PersicMar da Timor e d'ArafuraGolf dal BengalGolf da California

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

Yellow-bellied sea snake circa 88 cm lung (2,9 ft)In giat da chasa circa 50 cm (1,6 ft)In chaun circa 1 m (3,3 ft)
uschè lung sco 2 giats da chasa dal nas fin a la cuauschè lung sco 5 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess nudar la lunghezza d'in grond bassin (50 m) en 49 secundas

Quant grond è Yellow-bellied 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 can swim backwards, which is an unusual ability and a distinguishing feature of this species.1

2

It breathes partly through its skin, taking oxygen from seawater while diving and swimming at the surface.1

3

It can survive severe dehydration for up to 7 months during seasonal drought.1

4

Large groups of thousands have been seen floating together on the surface in oceanic drift lines.1

5

It is the only sea snake known to have reached the Hawaiian Islands.1

6

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

Destructur da mits

Mit: Sea snakes drink seawater and filter out the salt through a special salt gland in the lower jaw.

Vardad: 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

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific
Hydrophis platurus
Gruppa
Serps da mar
Famiglia
Elapidae2
Urden
Squamata
Continents
Ocean Pacific, Ocean Indic, Mar da Coral, Mar da la China dal Sid, Mar da las Filippinas, Mar d'Andaman, Mar Arab e Golf Persic, Mar da Timor e d'Arafura, Golf dal Bengal, Golf da California, Ils oceans
Poppins
It gives birth to live young (ovoviviparous) after a gestation period of around 6 months, and females bear them in tidal pools.1
Privel per umans
3 / 5: Grav3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

  1. Yellow-bellied sea snake (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Hydrophis platurus (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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