Marbled spinefoot
The marbled spinefoot is a shoaling fish that mostly eats algae. It lives in shallow warm seas in the Red Sea and western Indian Ocean, and it has spread into the Mediterranean. Its spines carry venom, so it is one to leave alone.1

Nguvu ya sumu
Miiba mikali hubeba sumu. Kumkanyaga au kumshika kunauma.
Sumu yake hufanya nini?
The spines in the fins have venom glands at their base. The venom is a protein that is damaged by heat. The sting is very painful.1
Ana hatari gani kwa watu?
Hatari kwa watu: InaumaInaweza kuuma sana, lakini karibu kamwe si jambo zito.The spines can inflict a painful sting if the fish is handled incorrectly. No deaths from its venom have been recorded. Separately, poisoning has been recorded in Israel after people ate its flesh, linked to fish caught in polluted water.1
Hufanya nini akiogopa?
Its spines are barbed and venomous, and they can injure anyone who handles the fish carelessly.1
Miiba yake ikikuchoma
- The affected area should be treated with as high a temperature as possible, within 43 to 46 °C, because heat damages the venom. The person should also be checked for possible infection.1
- 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 ndizi 2 zilizopangwa mstari
urefu sawa na matofali 12 ya kuchezea yaliyopangwa mstari
angeweza kuogelea urefu wa bwawa kubwa (m 50) kwa sekunde 35Marbled spinefoot ana ukubwa gani ukilinganisha na WEWE?
Ni hesabu tu kwenye kivinjari chako. Hakuna kinachohifadhiwa wala kutumwa popote.
Ana kasi gani?
Ukweli
Some people have reported hallucinations after eating it.1
Eating its flesh has caused poisoning, and the toxins involved are similar to ciguatoxin.1
Its spines carry venom from glands at their base, so the fish can sting when it is handled.1
Adults can eat jellyfish, including comb jellies and moon jellyfish, in parts of the northern Red Sea.1
It reached the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal, first recorded off Palestine in 1927.1
It can be bred in captivity and is being studied as a farmed fish because it eats plant-based feed.1
Kwa wataalamu wa sumu
- Jina la kisayansi
- Siganus rivulatus
- Kundi
- Samaki wenye sumu
- Familia
- Siganidae2
- Mpangilio
- Acanthuriformes
- Mabara
- Bahari ya Hindi, Bahari ya Shamu, Bahari ya Mediterania, Bahari ya Arabia na Ghuba ya Uajemi, Bahari kuu
- Watoto
- The fish lays eggs, which are fertilised outside the body. The eggs are 0.5 to 0.6 mm across, and the adults give them no care.1
- Hatari kwa watu
- 2 / 5: Inauma3
Ukweli unatoka wapi
- Siganus rivulatus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Siganus rivulatus (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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