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Yellow-lipped sea krait

Laticauda colubrina

Po mazzarPo ta mazzar senza tractament. Sch'el ta morda, tschertga spert agid.

Serps da mar

MorsasMangia: Charn

Privel per umans: Fitg privlusEl po mazzar ina persuna che na survegn nagin tractament.

The yellow-lipped sea krait is a highly venomous sea snake. It lives in tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific, between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. It spends much of its time underwater hunting, but it comes ashore to digest food, rest and breed.1

Viva en

Tropical Indo-Pacific, from eastern India through Southeast Asia to Fiji and other Pacific islands1

Ocean Pacific, Ocean Indic, Mar da las Filippinas, Mar da la China dal Sid, Mar da Coral, Mar d'Andaman, Mar da Timor e d'Arafura, Golf dal Bengal

Pagina iniziala

It lives in coastal waters and on the land beside them, and adults spend about half their time on land. People often meet it because it turns up in the water intake and exhaust pipes of boats, and it is drawn to lights in hotels and other buildings on coasts.1

Lunghezza

88 cm fin 1,4 m (2,9 ft fin 4,7 ft)1

Sveltezza maximala

circa 4,2 km/h (2,6 mph)

Nudar, stima approximativa

Tge mangia el?

It mainly eats eels, and also small fish. It usually hunts alone, but sometimes hunts in groups with giant trevally and goatfish, flushing prey out of narrow crevices and holes.1

Foto da Yellow-lipped sea krait — Yellow-lipped sea krait. Foto: Bernard DUPONT. CC BY-SA 4.0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

Black head with a yellow upper lip and snout. The yellow extends back above the eye.1
Upper body is a bluish grey, with black rings of about the same width along its length. The belly is yellowish.1
Paddle-shaped tail, adapted for swimming.1
Between 21 and 25 rows of overlapping scales run along the middle of the body.1

Savens confundì cun: The yellow-lipped New Caledonian sea krait is similar. It has fewer rows of scales, and its scales narrow or fail to meet. The dark bands of the yellow-lipped sea krait meet across the belly.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?

Its venom is a very powerful neurotoxic venom, which attacks the nerves. It blocks signals between nerves and muscles, which causes paralysis. In mice, lethal doses caused lethargy, paralysis and convulsions in quick succession before death.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: Fitg privlusEl po mazzar ina persuna che na survegn nagin tractament.

Fewer bites are recorded from this snake than from cobras and vipers, because it is less aggressive and tends to avoid people. Bites usually happen when it is accidentally grabbed. Most sea snake bites happen when fishermen try to untangle the snakes from their nets.1

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

It is not aggressive and only attacks when it feels threatened, and its tail moves and looks like its head, which can fool predators.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

Nua sin il mund?

Africa Asia Europa America dal Nord America dal Sid Australia ed Oceania Ocean Pacific Ocean Indic Mar da Coral Mar da la China dal Sid Mar da las Filippinas Mar d'Andaman Mar da Timor e d'Arafura Golf dal Bengal

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

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 43 secundas

Quant grond è Yellow-lipped sea krait cumpareglià cun TAI?

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

Quant svelt è el?

Ina persuna che nuda circa 3 km/h (1,9 mph)

Yellow-lipped sea krait circa 4,2 km/h (2,6 mph)

In nudader olimpic circa 8 km/h (5 mph)

bun da savair

Fatgs

Eels from New Guinea, where this snake lives, tolerated doses of its venom about 750 times larger than eels from the Caribbean, where it does not live.1

Snakes moved 5.3 km away from their home islands in Fiji all returned to their home islands, taking an average of 30.7 days.1

It hunts underwater but returns to land to digest food, shed its skin and breed.1

In the Philippines, these snakes are caught for their skin and meat. The meat is smoked and exported for use in Japanese cuisine.1

Females are much larger than males, with an average length of 142 cm compared with 87.5 cm for males.1

It is the most common sea krait found in New Zealand, where it is protected under the Wildlife Act 1953.1

Destructur da mits

Mit: Sea snakes are aggressive and attack people often.

Vardad: This snake is not aggressive. It avoids people and usually bites only when it is accidentally grabbed or feels threatened.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Laticauda colubrina
Gruppa: Serps da mar
Famiglia: Elapidae2
Urden: Squamata
Continents: Ocean Pacific, Ocean Indic, Mar da las Filippinas, Mar da la China dal Sid, Mar da Coral, Mar d'Andaman, Mar da Timor e d'Arafura, Golf dal Bengal, Ils oceans
Poppins: It lays eggs, as many as 10 in a clutch, in crevices where they stay until they hatch. Only two nests have been reported in the wild across its range.1
Privel per umans: 4 / 5: Fitg privlus3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

Yellow-lipped sea krait (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
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