Venomous remipede
The venomous remipede is a small, blind crustacean that swims through underground water. It lives in flooded caves and cenotes on the Yucatán Peninsula, near the Caribbean Sea. It is special because it is one of the very few crustaceans known to use venom to catch its food.1

Maziviro ayo
- It is blind and has no eyes or pigment, so it is pale.1
- It has a long, slender, segmented body about 2.5 to 3 cm long.1
- It has many legs, which it uses as oars to swim.1
- Its front claws look like hypodermic needles.1
- The number of body segments increases as it gets older. The highest number recorded was 36.1
Simba reuturu
Uturu hunobuda nemeno ayo painoruma.
Uturu hwayo hunoitei?
Its venom is similar to that of rattlesnakes and contains digestive enzymes and a paralysing toxin. The enzymes break down the body of its prey, and the toxin paralyses the prey. The venom is made in glands in the centre of the body and stored in reservoirs attached to the claws.1
Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?
Ngozi kuvanhu: Ngozi shomaSenyuchi kubaya kana kushoma. Kazhinji haina ngozi kuvanhu.
Kana ikaruma
- Isa ronda mumvura inopisa, inopisa sezvinokwanisa munhu asina kutsva, uye wana rubatsiro rwechiremba kuti mazonzwa abviswe. Usaachera iwe pachako.
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 ikakuruma: 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 yemugadheniVenomous remipede yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?
Masvomhu chete mubrowser yako. Hapana chinochengetwa kana kutumirwa kupi zvako.
Inomhanya zvakadii?
Chokwadi
Venom was believed to be completely absent from the roughly 70,000 known crustacean species until this animal was discovered.1
In 2007, researchers noticed its front claws looked like hypodermic needles. Venom reservoirs were later found attached to them.1
Its feeding technique is unique among crustaceans.1
It is hermaphroditic, meaning each individual has both male and female reproductive organs.1
It is one of 24 species in the class Remipedia. All of them live in caves, and they are found in the Caribbean, the Canary Islands and Western Australia.1
Remipede distribution is linked to the ancient Tethys Sea.1
Kuputsa ngano
Ngano: Crustaceans cannot have venom.
Chokwadi: This remipede injects venom through its front claws, and this was the first crustacean found to do so.1
Kwakabva chokwadi
- Xibalbanus tulumensis (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Xibalbanus tulumensis (iNaturalist): mazita nekurongwa kwemhuka.
- Venom Wiki: danho rengozi, saizi yakajairika nekufungidzira kwekumhanya ndezvedu. Ona kuti tinozviwana sei: Matinoyera ngozi.
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