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Marbled spinefoot

Siganus rivulatus
Kuhusu jina: The genus name Siganus comes from the Arabic sijan, meaning rabbitfish. The species name rivulatus means irregularly marked with colour, for the yellow streaks on its sides.1
Inauma tuUsiguseInauma, lakini haitakudhuru vibaya.
Samaki wenye sumu Miiba yenye sumuHula: Mimea
Hatari kwa watu: InaumaInaweza kuuma sana, lakini karibu kamwe si jambo zito.

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

Anaishi
Western Indian Ocean and Red Sea; now very common across the eastern Mediterranean1
Bahari ya Hindi, Bahari ya Shamu, Bahari ya Mediterania, Bahari ya Arabia na Ghuba ya Uajemi
Nyumbani
Shallow water, usually less than 15 m deep, over rock, sand or sea grass covered in algae. It prefers sheltered areas and sometimes enters estuaries. It lives in schools of 50 to several hundred fish.1
Urefu
10 cm hadi 40 cm (3.9 in hadi 1.3 ft)1
Kasi ya juu
takriban km 5.2 kwa saa (maili 3.2 kwa saa)
Kuogelea, makadirio
Hula nini?
Adults mainly graze on algae, including Polysiphonia and Sphacelaria species. In spring and early summer in the northern Red Sea they have also been seen eating comb jellies and moon jellyfish. Young fish feed on tiny diatoms and then on small crustaceans called copepods.1
Kweli kabisa!Picha ya Marbled spinefoot
Marbled spinefoot. Picha: Diego Delso. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Jinsi ya kumtambua

  • Grey-green to brown upper body1
  • Yellow or silvery white underside1
  • Dark spots and yellow wavy lines along the sides1
  • Flattened body, with barbed, venomous spines in the fins1
  • Usually 10 to 20 cm long1

Nguvu ya sumu

Miiba yenye 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

Ana ukubwa gani?

Ana urefu gani?

Marbled spinefoot urefu wa takriban 40 cm (1.3 ft)Ndizi takriban 18 cm (7.1 in)Paka wa nyumbani takriban 50 cm (1.6 ft)
urefu sawa na ndizi 2 zilizopangwa mstariurefu sawa na matofali 12 ya kuchezea yaliyopangwa mstariangeweza kuogelea urefu wa bwawa kubwa (m 50) kwa sekunde 35

Marbled spinefoot 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 people have reported hallucinations after eating it.1

2

Eating its flesh has caused poisoning, and the toxins involved are similar to ciguatoxin.1

3

Its spines carry venom from glands at their base, so the fish can sting when it is handled.1

4

Adults can eat jellyfish, including comb jellies and moon jellyfish, in parts of the northern Red Sea.1

5

It reached the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal, first recorded off Palestine in 1927.1

6

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

  1. Siganus rivulatus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Siganus rivulatus (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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