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Long-spined sea urchin

Diadema antillarum
Inauma tuUsiguseInauma, lakini haitakudhuru vibaya.
Koche, nyota wa bahari na minyoo Miiba yenye sumuHula: Mimea
Hatari kwa watu: InaumaInaweza kuuma sana, lakini karibu kamwe si jambo zito.

The long-spined sea urchin is a spiny, black sea creature that lives on coral reefs. It is one of the most important grazers on Caribbean and western Atlantic reefs, because it eats the algae that could otherwise smother the coral.1

Anaishi
Western Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, northern and eastern South America (as far south as Brazil), Canary Islands and the Indian Ocean1
Bahari ya Atlantiki, Bahari ya Karibi, Ghuba ya Meksiko
Nyumbani
It usually lives on coral reefs at depths of 1 to 10 metres. It often hides in a crevice, so that only its spines can be seen. Those that cannot find a crevice live in more exposed places.1
Urefu
10 cm hadi 30 cm (3.9 in hadi 1 ft)1
Kasi ya juu
takriban km 0.02 kwa saa (maili 0.01 kwa saa)
Kuogelea, makadirio
Hula nini?
It mostly eats algae, and sometimes seagrass. Starving urchins have been known to become carnivorous.1
Kweli kabisa!Picha ya Long-spined sea urchin
Long-spined sea urchin. Picha: NOAA, no known copyright restrictions (public domain). Public domain, iNaturalist.

Jinsi ya kumtambua

  • Exceptionally long black spines1
  • Spines are usually 10 to 12 cm long, and can reach 30 cm in very large individuals1
  • Most of the time it rests in a crevice, with only its spines showing1
  • Roams about one metre from its crevice at night to feed1

Nguvu ya sumu

Miiba yenye sumu

Miiba mikali hubeba sumu. Kumkanyaga au kumshika kunauma.

Ana hatari gani kwa watu?

Hatari kwa watu: InaumaInaweza kuuma sana, lakini karibu kamwe si jambo zito.

Miiba yake ikikuchoma

  • Weka jeraha kwenye maji ya moto, moto kiasi ambacho mtu anaweza kuvumilia bila kuungua, na utafute msaada wa kitabibu kuondoa miiba. Usiichokonoe mwenyewe.

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?

Long-spined sea urchin urefu wa takriban 30 cm (1 ft)Ndizi takriban 18 cm (7.1 in)Paka wa nyumbani takriban 50 cm (1.6 ft)
urefu sawa na matofali 9 ya kuchezea yaliyopangwa mstaripolepole kuliko konokono wa bustanini

Long-spined sea urchin ana ukubwa gani ukilinganisha na WEWE?

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

Ana kasi gani?

inafaa kujua

Ukweli

1

Some individuals have spines up to 30 cm long, while most sea urchins have spines of only 1 to 3 cm.1

2

In 1983, more than 97% of this sea urchin died across the Caribbean in a mass die-off, and the reefs became overgrown with algae.1

3

When males and females are ready to spawn, they release a fluid that alerts other urchins to release their eggs and sperm too.1

4

It is the most abundant and important herbivore on the coral reefs of the western Atlantic and Caribbean.1

5

Dedicated nurseries that grow these urchins to help restore reefs exist in Jamaica and Puerto Rico.1

Kwa wataalamu wa sumu

Jina la kisayansi
Diadema antillarum
Kundi
Koche, nyota wa bahari na minyoo
Familia
Diadematidae2
Mpangilio
Diadematoida
Mabara
Bahari ya Atlantiki, Bahari ya Karibi, Ghuba ya Meksiko, Bahari kuu
Watoto
Produces over a million eggs per spawning event.1
Hatari kwa watu
2 / 5: Inauma3

Ukweli unatoka wapi

  1. Diadema antillarum (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Diadema antillarum (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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