False stonefish
The false stonefish is a venomous fish that lives on the seabed in warm seas. It hides among rocks, coral and rubble, where it waits to ambush passing prey. It is worth knowing about because its back spines can give a painful sting.1

Jinsi ya kumtambua
- Broad head with a wide mouth, a humped back and a tapering body1
- Rough skin with low cone-shaped bumps, spines and tassels1
- Mottled grey and white colouring with reddish-brown blotches, which blends in with stones and coral1
- Twelve venomous spines in the dorsal (back) fin1
- Inner sides of the broad pectoral (side) fins show orange, black and white blotches1
Mara nyingi huchanganywa na: It closely resembles the reef stonefish (Synanceia verrucosa), which is why the two are easily confused.1
Nguvu ya sumu
Miiba mikali hubeba sumu. Kumkanyaga au kumshika kunauma.
Sumu yake hufanya nini?
Its venomous spines are in the dorsal fin on its back. They can inflict a painful wound when a person is pricked by them.1
Ana hatari gani kwa watu?
Hatari kwa watu: MbayaMiiba yake ikikuchoma, nenda kwa daktari. Vifo ni nadra sana.An 1829 account by the zoologists Cuvier and Valenciennes says the venom killed two local people in the Moluccas Islands of Indonesia, after what they described as frightful suffering. Local people there avoided the fish because they saw it as a bad omen.1
Hufanya nini akiogopa?
When disturbed by a possible predator, it flares its pectoral fins as a warning.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
Wapi duniani?
Ana ukubwa gani?
Ana urefu gani?
urefu sawa na matofali 9 ya kuchezea yaliyopangwa mstari
angeweza kuogelea urefu wa bwawa kubwa (m 50) kwa sekunde 90False stonefish ana ukubwa gani ukilinganisha na WEWE?
Ni hesabu tu kwenye kivinjari chako. Hakuna kinachohifadhiwa wala kutumwa popote.
Ana kasi gani?
Ukweli
When lit by blue or ultraviolet light, it glows red. This is called biofluorescence, and it may help the fish communicate with others of its kind and aid its camouflage.1
It has twelve venomous spines in its dorsal fin, and it is these spines that make it dangerous.1
Its wide mouth and camouflage let it wait for prey to pass close by before it strikes.1
It is sometimes partly covered with sediment, which helps it stay hidden on the seabed.1
Kwa wataalamu wa sumu
- Jina la kisayansi
- Scorpaenopsis diabolus
- Kundi
- Samaki wenye sumu
- Familia
- Scorpaenidae2
- Mpangilio
- Perciformes
- Mabara
- Bahari ya Hindi, Bahari ya Pasifiki, Bahari ya Shamu, Bahari ya Matumbawe, Bahari ya Ufilipino, Bahari ya Andaman, Bahari ya Timor na Arafura, Ghuba ya Bengal, Bahari kuu
- Hatari kwa watu
- 3 / 5: Mbaya3
Ukweli unatoka wapi
- Scorpaenopsis diabolus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Scorpaenopsis diabolus (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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Miiba yenye sumu