Christmas tree hydroid
The Christmas tree hydroid is a small, branching sea creature that grows in colonies on rocks and hard surfaces in shallow water. It is found in warm seas around the world, and it is common in the Mediterranean Sea. Scientists have used it to study how animals catch their prey.1

Jinsi ya kumtambua
- Colonies have many branching stems, up to 30 cm high, arranged in a tree-like shape1
- The stalks are dark brown or blackish, but are often coated with algae and diatoms, giving them a muddy look1
- The tiny whitish polyps are tinged with red1
- Each polyp has many slender tentacles at its base and up to twelve tentacles with knobbed tips around its mouth1
Nguvu ya sumu
Sumu hutoka kupitia mdungo.
Sumu yake hufanya nini?
Contact with a rope on which this hydroid was growing caused an acute, painful skin inflammation (dermatitis) in several people. Contact with the stinging cells on its tentacles is the cause.1
Ana hatari gani kwa watu?
Hatari kwa watu: InaumaInaweza kuuma sana, lakini karibu kamwe si jambo zito.Several people who touched a rope covered in this hydroid got an acute, painful dermatitis. No deaths are known.1
Akidunga
- Toka majini na uondoe vipande vya mikono iliyonata (kwa glavu au kitambaa).
- Kwa yavuyavu sanduku wa kitropiki: mimina siki kwenye sehemu zilizodungwa kwa angalau sekunde 30, omba msaada na uwe tayari kufanya CPR. Kwa mabotoli ya bluu na wengine wengi: suuza kwa maji ya bahari, kisha maji ya moto kupunguza maumivu.
Daima piga namba ya dharura kwanza (112, 000, 911). Huu ni mwongozo wa jumla wa huduma ya kwanza, si ushauri wa kitabibu. Misingi ya huduma ya kwanza
Kaa salama
- Kamwe usimguse, kumkamata wala kumchokoza mnyama wa porini, hata akiwa mdogo, na hata akionekana amelala au amekufa.
- Mpe nafasi. Ukikutana naye, tulia, rudi nyuma polepole na umwache aende zake.
- Akikudunga: tulia, usitikisike, piga namba yako ya dharura (112, 000, 911) au nenda hospitali haraka. Kumbuka alivyoonekana, picha husaidia.
Hakuwindi wewe. Hutumia sumu yake kukamata chakula au kujilinda, na hupendelea zaidi kujificha. Zaidi kuhusu kukaa salama
Wapi duniani?
Ana ukubwa gani?
Ana urefu gani?
urefu sawa na matofali 9 ya kuchezea yaliyopangwa mstari
polepole kuliko konokono wa bustaniniChristmas tree hydroid ana ukubwa gani ukilinganisha na WEWE?
Ni hesabu tu kwenye kivinjari chako. Hakuna kinachohifadhiwa wala kutumwa popote.
Ana kasi gani?
Ukweli
It has spread around the world largely through people's maritime activities, by attaching to ships and structures.1
It has been used in research into how animals capture their prey.1
Colonies grow by budding, which forms new feeding polyps.1
Its free-swimming larvae drift with the plankton before settling on a hard surface.1
Kwa wataalamu wa sumu
- Jina la kisayansi
- Pennaria disticha
- Kundi
- Yavuyavu na wadungaji wa baharini
- Familia
- Pennariidae2
- Mpangilio
- Anthoathecata
- Mabara
- Bahari ya Atlantiki, Bahari ya Pasifiki, Bahari ya Hindi, Bahari ya Karibi, Bahari ya Mediterania, Ghuba ya Meksiko, Bahari ya Timor na Arafura, Ghuba ya Bengal, Ghuba ya California, Bahari kuu
- Watoto
- Females release up to six eggs. Each embryo develops within a day or so into a free-swimming larva called a planula, which later settles on a hard surface to start a new colony.1
- Hatari kwa watu
- 2 / 5: Inauma3
Ukweli unatoka wapi
- Pennaria disticha (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Pennaria disticha (iNaturalist): majina na uainishaji.
- Venom Wiki: kiwango cha hatari, ukubwa wa kawaida na makadirio ya kasi ni yetu wenyewe. Ona jinsi tunavyovipata: Jinsi tunavyopima hatari.
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