Blue sea dragon
The blue sea dragon is a small, bright blue sea slug that floats upside down on the open ocean. It drifts with winds and currents in warm and temperate seas around the world. It is special because it steals stinging cells from the animals it eats and uses them as its own weapon.1

Maziviro ayo
- Usually around 3 cm long1
- Floats upside down at the surface, with its blue side facing up1
- Silvery grey on its back, which faces down in the water1
- Dark blue stripes on its head1
- Six finger-like, feathery appendages called cerata1
Inowanzovhiringidzwa ne: It is closely related to G. marginatus, which is now known to be four separate species living in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It also shares the name "blue dragon" with Pteraeolidia ianthina and G. marginatus.1
Simba reuturu
Uturu hunobuda nerumbori.
Uturu hwayo hunoitei?
It does not make its own venom. It takes the stinging cells (nematocysts) from the Portuguese man o' war and stores them in its cerata, a process called kleptocnidy. Because it concentrates this venom, its sting can be stronger than that of the animal it eats. Symptoms can include pain, nausea, vomiting, a rash, redness and blisters.1
Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?
Ngozi kuvanhu: InorwadzaInogona kurwadza chaizvo, asi kazhinji haisi njodzi huru.Picking up the animal can cause a very painful sting that may be potentially dangerous. Its sting produces symptoms similar to those of the Portuguese man o' war.1
Inoitei kana yatya?
It stores stinging cells from its prey in its cerata and uses them against predators.1
Kana ikabaya
- Kusunga nekumisa (pressure immobilisation): monera bhandeji rinotambanuka zvakasimba pamusoro peparumwa wozokwira nenhengo yose, isungirire nechitsigiso (splint), uye chengeta munhu asingafambe zvachose kusvikira rubatsiro rwasvika.
- Octopus ine mhete dzebhuruu kana hozhwa yecone inogona kumisa kufema kwemunhu achiri kumuka: shevedza rubatsiro ugare wakagadzirira kumufemera mumuromo kusvikira vanhu veambulensi vatora basa.
Gara uchitanga wafonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911). Iri izano rakajairika rerubatsiro rwekutanga, kwete zano rechiremba. Zvakakosha zverubatsiro rwekutanga
Gara wakachengeteka
- Usambobata mhuka yesango, kuedza kuitora kana kuinetsa, kunyange iri diki, uye kunyange ichiita seyakarara kana yakafa.
- Ipa nzvimbo. Kana ukasangana nayo, dzikama, dzokera shure zvishoma nezvishoma uirege iende nenzira yayo.
- Kana imwe ikakubaya: dzikama, gara wakanyarara, fonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911) kana kuti enda kuchipatara nokukurumidza. Rangarira kuti yaitaridzika sei, mufananidzo unobatsira.
Haisi kukutsvaga. Inoshandisa uturu hwayo kubata chikafu kana kuzvidzivirira, uye inotonyanya kuda kuhwanda. Zvimwe pamusoro pekugara wakachengeteka
Kupi pasi rose?
Yakakura sei?
Yakareba zvakadii?
inenge kureba sechibatanidzo chemapepa
inononoka kupfuura hozhwa yemugadheniBlue sea dragon yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?
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Inomhanya zvakadii?
Chokwadi
It can eat the Portuguese man o' war without harm, because it is immune to that animal's stinging cells.1
It floats upside down because its gas-filled stomach sac sits on the wrong side of its body, so its foot becomes its upper surface.1
Its blue colour is thought to reflect harmful ultraviolet sunlight.1
Its countershading, with blue on top and silver-grey below, helps it hide from predators above and below.1
It can lay up to 55 egg strings per hour.1
Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu
- Zita resainzi
- Glaucus atlanticus
- Boka
- Hozhwa dzecone nemaoctopus
- Mhuri
- Glaucidae2
- Odha
- Nudibranchia
- Makondinendi
- Gungwa reAtlantic, Gungwa rePacific, Gungwa reIndia, Makungwa makuru
- Vacheche
- After mating, both partners lay egg strings with up to 20 eggs on each string, often in wood or on carcasses.1
- Makore ekurarama
- kunenge makore 11
- Ngozi kuvanhu
- 2 / 5: Inorwadza3
Kwakabva chokwadi
- Glaucus atlanticus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Glaucus atlanticus (iNaturalist): mazita nekurongwa kwemhuka.
- Venom Wiki: danho rengozi, saizi yakajairika nekufungidzira kwekumhanya ndezvedu. Ona kuti tinozviwana sei: Matinoyera ngozi.
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