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

Maziviro ayo
- 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
Inowanzovhiringidzwa ne: 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
Simba reuturu
Uturu hunobuda nemeno ayo painoruma.
Uturu hwayo hunoitei?
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
Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?
Ngozi kuvanhu: Ine ngozi zvikuruInogona kuuraya munhu asina kurapwa.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
Inoitei kana yatya?
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
Kana ikaruma
- Kusunga nekumisa (pressure immobilisation): monera bhandeji rinotambanuka zvakasimba pamusoro peparumwa wozokwira nenhengo yose, isungirire nechitsigiso (splint), uye chengeta munhu asingafambe zvachose kusvikira rubatsiro rwasvika.
- Budisa munhu mumvura umuendese kuchipatara nokukurumidza.
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?
yakareba sekatsi dzepamba 3 kubva pamhuno kusvika kumuswe
yakareba semabhanana 8 akateedzana
inogona kushambira kureba kwedziva guru rekushambira (50 m) mumasekondi 43Yellow-lipped sea krait yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?
Masvomhu chete mubrowser yako. Hapana chinochengetwa kana kutumirwa kupi zvako.
Inomhanya zvakadii?
Chokwadi
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
Kuputsa ngano
Ngano: Sea snakes are aggressive and attack people often.
Chokwadi: This snake is not aggressive. It avoids people and usually bites only when it is accidentally grabbed or feels threatened.1
Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu
- Zita resainzi
- Laticauda colubrina
- Boka
- Nyoka dzegungwa
- Mhuri
- Elapidae2
- Odha
- Squamata
- Makondinendi
- Gungwa rePacific, Gungwa reIndia, Gungwa rePhilippines, Gungwa reChina yeKumaodzanyemba, Gungwa reCoral, Gungwa reAndaman, Gungwa reTimor neArafura, Gungwa reBengal, Makungwa makuru
- Vacheche
- 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
- Ngozi kuvanhu
- 4 / 5: Ine ngozi zvikuru3
Kwakabva chokwadi
- Yellow-lipped sea krait (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Laticauda colubrina (iNaturalist): mazita nekurongwa kwemhuka.
- Venom Wiki: danho rengozi, saizi yakajairika nekufungidzira kwekumhanya ndezvedu. Ona kuti tinozviwana sei: Matinoyera ngozi.
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