Eel-tailed catfish
The eel-tailed catfish is a freshwater fish with a large head, thick lips and a tail that narrows like an eel's. It lives in the Murray-Darling river system in eastern Australia. Its fins carry sharp, venomous spines, so it is important to know it when you are in the water.1

Jinsi ya kumtambua
- Large head with thick, fleshy lips and tube-shaped nostrils1
- Four pairs of barbels (whisker-like feelers) around the mouth1
- Almost cylindrical body that tapers into a pointed, eel-like tail with a continuous fin edge1
- Olive-green to brown, black or purplish back with a white underside1
- Sharp, serrated spines on the dorsal (back) and pectoral (side) fins, which are venomous1
Nguvu ya sumu
Miiba mikali hubeba sumu. Kumkanyaga au kumshika kunauma.
Sumu yake hufanya nini?
Its fin spines are venomous and can cause a very painful wound.1
Ana hatari gani kwa watu?
Hatari kwa watu: InaumaInaweza kuuma sana, lakini karibu kamwe si jambo zito.The spines can cause a very painful wound.1
Miiba yake ikikuchoma
- Weka jeraha kwenye maji ya moto, moto kiasi ambacho mtu anaweza kuvumilia bila kuungua (pima kwanza kwa mkono wako), kwa dakika 30 hadi 90. Tafuta msaada wa kitabibu, hasa kwa samaki-jiwe na taa.
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.
- Miiba yake ikikuchoma: 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
Ana ukubwa gani?
Ana urefu gani?
Ana uzito gani?
urefu sawa na paka wa nyumbani 2 kutoka pua hadi mkia
urefu sawa na ndizi 5 zilizopangwa mstari
karibu uzito sawa na paka wa nyumbani
angeweza kuogelea urefu wa bwawa kubwa (m 50) kwa sekunde 24Eel-tailed catfish ana ukubwa gani ukilinganisha na WEWE?
Ni hesabu tu kwenye kivinjari chako. Hakuna kinachohifadhiwa wala kutumwa popote.
Ana kasi gani?
Ukweli
Males and females both help: the parents guard the nest of eggs until they hatch.1
The nest is built one or two weeks before spawning, when water reaches 20–24 °C.1
Juveniles often gather in groups, although adults usually live alone.1
Its populations in the southern Murray-Darling have declined so much that most are extinct or nearly so.1
Kwa wataalamu wa sumu
- Jina la kisayansi
- Tandanus tandanus
- Kundi
- Samaki wenye sumu
- Familia
- Plotosidae2
- Mpangilio
- Siluriformes
- Mabara
- Australia na Oceania
- Watoto
- Eggs are laid in a large nest of small stones and gravel, up to a metre across. One or both parents guard the eggs until they hatch.1
- Muda wa maisha
- takriban miaka 81
- Hali yake porini
- Endangered in New South Wales; Threatened in Victoria; Protected in South Australia1
- Hatari kwa watu
- 2 / 5: Inauma3
Ukweli unatoka wapi
- Eel-tailed catfish (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Tandanus tandanus (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.
Kila ukweli kwenye ukurasa huu una namba inayoonyesha chanzo chake. Kama tumekosea kitu, samahani, sisi ni wapenzi wa wanyama, si jarida la kisayansi. Tuambie kupitia [email protected] nasi tutarekebisha.
Miiba yenye sumu

