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Giant Caribbean sea anemone

Condylactis gigantea
Hana madharaHana madhara kwa watu. Hakuna cha kuhofia.
Yavuyavu na wadungaji wa baharini Mikono inayodungaHula: Nyama
Hatari kwa watu: HafifuKama kudungwa na nyuki au chini ya hapo. Kimsingi hana madhara kwa watu.

The giant Caribbean sea anemone is a large, colourful sea animal that looks like a soft, flower-shaped blob on the seabed. It lives in shallow reefs and calm inshore waters in the Caribbean and western Atlantic. Its sting is strong enough to stun the fish and shrimp it eats.1

Anaishi
Caribbean Sea and West Indies, and the western Atlantic from southern Florida through the Florida Keys; also common in Bermuda1
Bahari ya Atlantiki, Bahari ya Karibi, Ghuba ya Meksiko
Nyumbani
It is usually found in crevices in rock walls, or attached to a rock, shell or other hard object in shallow water with full-strength seawater most of the time. It is very common around reefs, in both forereef and lagoon areas.1
Urefu
15 cm (5.9 in)1
Kasi ya juu
takriban km 0.01 kwa saa (maili 0.01 kwa saa)
Kuogelea, makadirio
Hula nini?
It eats fish, mussels, shrimp, zooplankton and sea worms. Its stinging cells paralyse the prey, which is then carried to the mouth and swallowed whole.1
Kweli kabisa!Picha ya Giant Caribbean sea anemone
Giant Caribbean sea anemone. Picha: LASZLO ILYES. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Jinsi ya kumtambua

  • Grows about 15 cm high and 30 cm wide, with a disc up to about 40 cm across1
  • Body can be white, light blue, pink, orange, pale red or light brown1
  • More than 100 tentacles surround the mouth1
  • Tentacle tips may be purple or rose-coloured, or may be paler than the body1
  • Grows singly or in loose groups, never as colonies1

Nguvu ya sumu

Mikono inayodunga

Maelfu ya seli ndogo za kudunga hufyatuka kitu kikizigusa.

Sumu yake hufanya nini?

Its stinging cells (nematocysts) at the tentacle tips contain a toxin called CgNa. When the stinging cells fire, they impale the attacker and release the toxin, which causes extreme pain and paralysis.1

Ana hatari gani kwa watu?

Hatari kwa watu: HafifuKama kudungwa na nyuki au chini ya hapo. Kimsingi hana madhara kwa watu.

Hufanya nini akiogopa?

When threatened it shrinks by pulling its tentacles into its body and forcing out most of the water, which reduces the surface a predator can attack.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

Ana ukubwa gani?

Ana urefu gani?

Giant Caribbean sea anemone urefu wa takriban 15 cm (5.9 in)Simu janja takriban 15 cm (5.9 in)Ndizi takriban 18 cm (7.1 in)
urefu sawa na matofali 5 ya kuchezea yaliyopangwa mstaripolepole kuliko konokono wa bustanini

Giant Caribbean sea anemone ana ukubwa gani ukilinganisha na WEWE?

Ni hesabu tu kwenye kivinjari chako. Hakuna kinachohifadhiwa wala kutumwa popote.

Ana kasi gani?

inafaa kujua

Ukweli

1

Its nerve cells contain proteins that are molecularly similar to those in mammal nerve cells, which helps scientists study how nervous systems evolved.1

2

Fish and cleaner shrimp shelter among its tentacles, and it serves as a base station for fish cleaning.1

3

Although mostly stuck in place, it can crawl very slowly on its base, the pedal disc.1

4

Its larvae carry their own food in a yolk, so starvation is unlikely and they can drift far to spread out.1

5

Most individuals are either male or female, with a roughly equal ratio of the two sexes, though they occasionally have both.1

Kwa wataalamu wa sumu

Jina la kisayansi
Condylactis gigantea
Kundi
Yavuyavu na wadungaji wa baharini
Familia
Actiniidae2
Mpangilio
Actiniaria
Mabara
Bahari ya Atlantiki, Bahari ya Karibi, Ghuba ya Meksiko, Bahari kuu
Watoto
Eggs and sperm are released into the water, where fertilisation happens. The fertilised egg becomes a larva that settles on the seabed and grows into an adult.1
Hatari kwa watu
1 / 5: Hafifu3

Ukweli unatoka wapi

  1. Condylactis gigantea (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Condylactis gigantea (iNaturalist): majina na uainishaji.
  3. 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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