Yellow-lipped sea krait
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

Uko wayimenya
- 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
Ikunze kwitiranywa na: 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
Imbaraga z'ubumara
Ubumara busohokera mu menyo yayo y'ubumara cyangwa mu yandi menyo iyo iriye.
Ubumara bwayo bukora iki?
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
Iteje akaga kangana iki ku bantu?
Akaga ku bantu: Iteje akaga cyaneIshobora kwica umuntu utavuwe.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
Ikora iki iyo ifite ubwoba?
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
Niba iruma
- Gupfuka ukanda no kudanyeganyeza (pressure immobilisation): zingira bande ikweduka kandi ifashe neza hejuru y'aho yarumye, hanyuma uzamuke ku rugingo rwose, urushyireho agati ko kurukomeza (attelle), kandi umuntu agume atanyeganyega na gato kugeza ubutabazi buhageze.
- Kura umuntu mu mazi kandi umujyane ku bitaro vuba.
Buri gihe banza uhamagare nimero y'ubutabazi (112, 000, 911). Izi ni inama rusange z'ubutabazi bw'ibanze, si inama za muganga. Ibanze by'ubutabazi bw'ibanze
Irinde akaga
- Ntuzigere ukora, ufata cyangwa ushotora inyamaswa yo mu gasozi, nubwo yaba ntoya, kandi nubwo yasa n'isinziriye cyangwa yapfuye.
- Yihe umwanya. Niba uhuye n'imwe, tuza, usubire inyuma buhoro buhoro kandi uyireke yigendere.
- Niba imwe ikurumye: tuza, ntunyeganyege, hamagara nimero y'ubutabazi (112, 000, 911) cyangwa ujye ku bitaro vuba. Ibuka uko yasaga, ifoto irafasha.
Ntigushakisha ngo ikugirire nabi. Ikoresha ubumara bwayo kugira ngo ifate ibyo kurya cyangwa yirinde, kandi ikunda cyane kwihisha. Ibindi ku kwirinda
Ni hehe ku isi?
Ingana gute?
Ireshya ite?
ireshya n'injangwe zo mu rugo 3 zikurikiranye kuva ku zuru kugeza ku murizo
ireshya n'imineke 8 ikurikiranye
yakoga uburebure bw'ikidendezi kinini (metero 50) mu masegonda 43Yellow-lipped sea krait ingana ite ugereranyije NAWE?
Ni imibare gusa ikorerwa muri mudasobwa yawe. Nta kintu kibikwa cyangwa cyoherezwa ahandi.
Yihuta gute?
Ibintu by'ukuri
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
Usenya ibinyoma
Ikinyoma: Sea snakes are aggressive and attack people often.
Ukuri: This snake is not aggressive. It avoids people and usually bites only when it is accidentally grabbed or feels threatened.1
Ku bahanga mu by'ubumara
- Izina rya siyansi
- Laticauda colubrina
- Itsinda
- Inzoka zo mu nyanja
- Umuryango
- Elapidae2
- Itsinda rinini (order)
- Squamata
- Imigabane
- Inyanja ya Pasifika, Inyanja y'Abahinde, Inyanja ya Filipine, Inyanja y'Amajyepfo y'u Bushinwa, Inyanja ya Korali, Inyanja ya Andamani, Inyanja ya Timor na Arafura, Ikigobe cya Bengali, Inyanja ngari
- Abana bato
- 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
- Akaga ku bantu
- 4 / 5: Iteje akaga cyane3
Aho ibintu bivugwa bituruka
- Yellow-lipped sea krait (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Laticauda colubrina (iNaturalist): amazina n'ibyiciro.
- Venom Wiki: urwego rw'akaga, ingano isanzwe n'ikigereranyo cy'umuvuduko ni ibyacu bwite. Reba uko tubibara: Uko tugena akaga.
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