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Giant Caribbean sea anemone

Condylactis gigantea
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Meduze in morski ožigalkarji Ožigalne lovkeJe: Meso
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The giant Caribbean sea anemone is a large, colourful sea animal that looks like a soft, flower-shaped blob on the seabed. It lives in shallow reefs and calm inshore waters in the Caribbean and western Atlantic. Its sting is strong enough to stun the fish and shrimp it eats.1

Živi v
Caribbean Sea and West Indies, and the western Atlantic from southern Florida through the Florida Keys; also common in Bermuda1
Atlantski ocean, Karibsko morje, Mehiški zaliv
Domov
It is usually found in crevices in rock walls, or attached to a rock, shell or other hard object in shallow water with full-strength seawater most of the time. It is very common around reefs, in both forereef and lagoon areas.1
Dolžina
15 cm (5,9 in)1
Največja hitrost
približno 0,01 km/h (0,01 mph)
Plavanje, groba ocena
Kaj je?
It eats fish, mussels, shrimp, zooplankton and sea worms. Its stinging cells paralyse the prey, which is then carried to the mouth and swallowed whole.1
Zares!Fotografija: Giant Caribbean sea anemone
Giant Caribbean sea anemone. Fotografija: LASZLO ILYES. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Kako jo prepoznaš

  • Grows about 15 cm high and 30 cm wide, with a disc up to about 40 cm across1
  • Body can be white, light blue, pink, orange, pale red or light brown1
  • More than 100 tentacles surround the mouth1
  • Tentacle tips may be purple or rose-coloured, or may be paler than the body1
  • Grows singly or in loose groups, never as colonies1

Moč strupa

Ožigalne lovke

Na tisoče drobnih ožigalnih celic se sproži, ko se jih kaj dotakne.

Kaj naredi njen strup, ko ugrizne ali piči?

Its stinging cells (nematocysts) at the tentacle tips contain a toxin called CgNa. When the stinging cells fire, they impale the attacker and release the toxin, which causes extreme pain and paralysis.1

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Kaj naredi, ko se prestraši?

When threatened it shrinks by pulling its tentacles into its body and forcing out most of the water, which reduces the surface a predator can attack.1

Če piči

  • Pojdi iz vode in odstrani lovke (z rokavicami ali s krpo).
  • Pri tropskih kockastih meduzah: pike vsaj 30 sekund polivaj s kisom, pokliči pomoč in bodi pripravljen na oživljanje (TPO). Pri portugalskih ladjicah in večini drugih: izperi z morsko vodo, nato pa za bolečino uporabi vročo vodo.

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Ostani varen

  • Nikoli se ne dotikaj divje živali, je ne lovi in je ne draži, tudi če je majhna in tudi če je videti, kot da spi ali je mrtva.
  • Pusti ji prostor. Če jo srečaš, ostani miren, počasi stopi nazaj in jo pusti, da gre svojo pot.
  • Če te piči: ostani miren, ne premikaj se, pokliči številko za klic v sili (112, 000, 911) ali hitro pojdi v bolnišnico. Zapomni si, kako je izgledala, fotografija pomaga.

Ne preži nate. Strup uporablja, da ulovi hrano ali se zaščiti, in se veliko raje skrije. Več o varnosti

Kako velika je?

Kako dolga je?

Giant Caribbean sea anemone približno 15 cm dolga (5,9 in)Pametni telefon približno 15 cm (5,9 in)Banana približno 18 cm (7,1 in)
dolga kot 5 kock za igranje v vrstipočasnejša od vrtnega polža

Kakšne velikosti je Giant Caribbean sea anemone v primerjavi s TABO?

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Kako hitra je?

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Dejstva

1

Its nerve cells contain proteins that are molecularly similar to those in mammal nerve cells, which helps scientists study how nervous systems evolved.1

2

Fish and cleaner shrimp shelter among its tentacles, and it serves as a base station for fish cleaning.1

3

Although mostly stuck in place, it can crawl very slowly on its base, the pedal disc.1

4

Its larvae carry their own food in a yolk, so starvation is unlikely and they can drift far to spread out.1

5

Most individuals are either male or female, with a roughly equal ratio of the two sexes, though they occasionally have both.1

Za strokovnjake za strupe

Znanstveno ime
Condylactis gigantea
Skupina
Meduze in morski ožigalkarji
Družina
Actiniidae2
Red
Actiniaria
Celine
Atlantski ocean, Karibsko morje, Mehiški zaliv, Oceani
Mladiči
Eggs and sperm are released into the water, where fertilisation happens. The fertilised egg becomes a larva that settles on the seabed and grows into an adult.1
Nevarnost za ljudi
1 / 5: Blaga3

Od kod so dejstva

  1. Condylactis gigantea (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Condylactis gigantea (iNaturalist): imena in razvrstitev.
  3. Venom Wiki: stopnja nevarnosti, tipična velikost in ocena hitrosti so naše lastne. Poglej, kako jih določimo: Kako ocenjujemo nevarnost.

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