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Leaf-scaled sea snake

Aipysurus foliosquama
Anahitaji daktariMara chache huua, lakini kuumwa kunahitaji daktari.
Nyoka wa baharini KuumwaHula: Nyama
Hatari kwa watu: MbayaKuumwa kunahitaji daktari. Vifo ni nadra sana.

The leaf-scaled sea snake is a venomous snake that lives in the sea. It was once found around a few remote reefs off northern Australia, but for a long time it was thought to have disappeared. It was rediscovered in 2015 in Shark Bay, on the coast of Western Australia.1

Anaishi
Shark Bay, Western Australia; formerly Ashmore and Hibernia Reefs in the Timor Sea1
Bahari ya Pasifiki, Bahari ya Matumbawe, Bahari ya Hindi, Bahari ya Timor na Arafura
Nyumbani
It lives in seagrass beds and waters up to 10 metres deep. Its diet is also linked to coral outcrops and crevices, where it hunts fish.1
Urefu
80 cm (2.6 ft)1
Kasi ya juu
takriban km 3.6 kwa saa (maili 2.2 kwa saa)
Kuogelea, makadirio
Hula nini?
It eats wrasse and gudgeon fish. It pursues them through coral outcrops and crevices.1
Kweli kabisa!Picha ya Leaf-scaled sea snake
Leaf-scaled sea snake. Picha: Kate L. Sanders, Tina Schroeder, Michael L. Guinea, and Arne R. Rasmussen. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Jinsi ya kumtambua

  • Purple brown in colour1
  • Recorded length of around 80 cm1
  • A sea snake, so it has a flattened, paddle-like body shape suited to swimming1
  • Lives in seagrass beds and near coral1

Nguvu ya sumu

Kuumwa

Sumu hutoka kupitia meno yake ya sumu au meno anapouma.

Ana hatari gani kwa watu?

Hatari kwa watu: MbayaKuumwa kunahitaji daktari. Vifo ni nadra sana.

Akiuma

  • Kubana na kutotikisa: funga bandeji nyororo kwa nguvu juu ya jeraha kisha mguu au mkono mzima, weka banzi, na umweke mtu bila kutikisika kabisa hadi msaada ufike.
  • Mtoe mtu majini na umpeleke hospitali haraka.

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.
  • Akikuuma: 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?

Leaf-scaled sea snake urefu wa takriban 80 cm (2.6 ft)Paka wa nyumbani takriban 50 cm (1.6 ft)Mbwa takriban 1 m (3.3 ft)
urefu sawa na paka wa nyumbani 1.5 kutoka pua hadi mkiaurefu sawa na ndizi 4 zilizopangwa mstariangeweza kuogelea urefu wa bwawa kubwa (m 50) kwa sekunde 50

Leaf-scaled sea snake ana ukubwa gani ukilinganisha na WEWE?

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

Ana kasi gani?

inafaa kujua

Ukweli

1

It was thought to have become extinct at the Ashmore and Cartier Islands, but a population was found in Shark Bay in December 2015.1

2

It is listed as one of The World's 100 Most Threatened Species.1

3

Its previously known habitats, the Ashmore and Hibernia Reefs, are about 1,700 km away from Shark Bay.1

4

Like other sea snakes, it has no gills. It must come up to the surface regularly to breathe air with its lungs.1

Kwa wataalamu wa sumu

Jina la kisayansi
Aipysurus foliosquama
Kundi
Nyoka wa baharini
Familia
Elapidae2
Mpangilio
Squamata
Mabara
Bahari ya Pasifiki, Bahari ya Matumbawe, Bahari ya Hindi, Bahari ya Timor na Arafura, Bahari kuu
Hali yake porini
Data deficient (IUCN). Listed as one of The World's 100 Most Threatened Species; its population is significantly declining.1
Hatari kwa watu
3 / 5: Mbaya3

Ukweli unatoka wapi

  1. Aipysurus foliosquama (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Aipysurus foliosquama (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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