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Yellow-bellied sea snake

Hydrophis platurus
Ci turam: Platurus comes from Ancient Greek words meaning 'flat' and 'tail', which refers to its flattened, paddle-shaped tail.1
Soxla na doktoorLu néew la mu rey, waaye màtt laaj na doktoor.
Jaani géej Dafay màttDafay lekk: Jën
Musiba ci nit: Lu bonMàtt laaj na doktoor. Ñi ciy dee dañoo néew lool.

The yellow-bellied sea snake is a sea snake with a strongly venomous bite. It lives in warm tropical oceans and spends its whole life at sea, floating on the surface. Its yellow belly and brown back make it easy to tell apart from most other sea snakes.1

Dafay dund ci
Tropical oceans across the Indo-Pacific, the Pacific coasts of the Americas, the eastern coast of Africa, and parts of the Atlantic and Caribbean through occasional strays.1
Mbàmbulaanu Pasifik, Mbàmbulaanu End, Géeju Koraay, Géeju Siin gu Bëj-saalum, Géeju Filipin, Géeju Andaman, Géeju Arabi ak Golfu Pers, Géeju Timor ak Arafura, Golfu Bengal, Golfu Kaliforni
Kër
It is a free-floating ocean snake that drifts on surface currents, often along oceanic drift lines and in floating mats of sea kelp. People most often meet it when it is washed up on beaches or caught in fishing nets.1
Guddaay
88 cm (2,9 ft)1
Gaawaay bu gën a kawe
lu tollu ci 3,7 km/h (2,3 mph)
Féey, xalaat
Lan lay lekk?
It hunts pelagic fish that come to the surface to shelter. It floats still on the surface to attract them, then catches prey with a backwards swimming motion and a rapid lunge of the jaws.1
Dëgg-dëgg!Fotoy Yellow-bellied sea snake
Yellow-bellied sea snake. Foto: Aloaiza. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Ni ngay ko xàmmee

  • Sharply bicoloured: black or dark brown on the back, with a yellow or brown underside.1
  • The yellow belly may have black spots, bars or crossbars, or a narrow black stripe along the back.1
  • Has a flattened, paddle-shaped tail for swimming.1
  • Adults are usually up to about 72 cm (males) or 88 cm (females) long.1

Kàttanu daŋar

Dafay màtt

Daŋar bi dafay génn ci bëñam yi su màttee.

Lan la daŋar biy sóob di def?

The venom is highly potent and contains several different neurotoxins, which attack the nerves, along with two other isotoxins. Sea snake venom can damage skeletal muscle, which may release myoglobin into the urine (myoglobinuria), and can cause neuromuscular paralysis or direct kidney damage. Juvenile venom is on average less concentrated than adult venom.1

Ni mu lore nit ñi?

Musiba ci nit: Lu bonMàtt laaj na doktoor. Ñi ciy dee dañoo néew lool.

Bites are rare. The most common victims are fishermen who try to remove the snakes from fishing nets. No deaths have been recorded from bites in Australian waters.1

Xibaar bu baax: doktoor yi am nañu garab (sérum antivenimeux) walla ab paj ngir lii.1

Lan lay def bu tiitee?

It is not considered aggressive but will defend itself if threatened.1

Su màttee

  • The venom is neutralised with sea snake antivenom (Enhydrina schistosa). If that is not available, tiger snake or polyvalent antivenom should be used.1
  • Immobilisation ak pression: laxasal ab bànd élastique bu dëgër ci kaw fa mu màtt, ba noppi nga laxas cër bi yépp jëm kaw, takkal ko attelle, te def ba nit ki bañ a yëngu dara ba ndimbal ñëw.
  • Génnal nit ki ci ndox mi te yóbbu ko lopitaan ci gaaw.

Saa su nekk, woo jëkk sa nimerob urgence (112, 000, 911). Lii ay ndigal yu yaatu ci ndimbal yu jëkk la, du ndigalu doktoor. Li war a xam ci ndimbal yu jëkk

Sàmmal sa bopp

  • Bul laal mukk, bul jàpp, bul sonal ab rab bu àll, doonte bu ndaw la, te doonte dafa mel ni dafa nelaw walla dafa dee.
  • May ko bérab. Su nga ko gisee, dalal, dellu ginnaaw ndànk-ndànk te bàyyi ko mu dem yoonam.
  • Su benn màttee la: dalal, bul yëngu, woo sa nimerob urgence (112, 000, 911) walla dem lopitaan ci gaaw. Bul fàtte ni mu meloon, ab nataal dina dimbali.

Du la wut. Dafay jëfandikoo daŋaram ngir jàpp lu muy lekk walla ngir aar boppam, te nëbbu moo ko gën a neex. Yeneen ci ni ngay sàmme sa bopp

Fan ci àddina?

AfrigAsiTugalAmerig gu Bëj-gànnaarAmerig gu Bëj-saalumOstarali ak OseyaniMbàmbulaanu PasifikMbàmbulaanu EndGéeju KoraayGéeju Siin gu Bëj-saalumGéeju FilipinGéeju AndamanGéeju Arabi ak Golfu PersGéeju Timor ak ArafuraGolfu BengalGolfu Kaliforni

Ni mu réye?

Ni mu guddoo?

Yellow-bellied sea snake guddaayam lu tollu ci 88 cm (2,9 ft)Ab muusu kër lu tollu ci 50 cm (1,6 ft)Ab xaj lu tollu ci 1 m (3,3 ft)
guddu na ni 2 muusu kër, bakkan ba geenguddu na ni 5 banaana yu ñu toftalemën na féey guddaayu pisin bu réy (50 m) ci 49 segond

Yellow-bellied sea snake ni mu réye ci wetu YOW?

Ay waññ rekk ci sa navigateur. Dara du denc te dara du yónnee fenn.

Ni mu gaawe?

baax na xam

Xibaar

1

It can swim backwards, which is an unusual ability and a distinguishing feature of this species.1

2

It breathes partly through its skin, taking oxygen from seawater while diving and swimming at the surface.1

3

It can survive severe dehydration for up to 7 months during seasonal drought.1

4

Large groups of thousands have been seen floating together on the surface in oceanic drift lines.1

5

It is the only sea snake known to have reached the Hawaiian Islands.1

6

Strays wash up so often on New Zealand's coasts that it is considered native to the country and protected under the Wildlife Act 1953.1

Tasukatu léeb

Xalaat bu juum: Sea snakes drink seawater and filter out the salt through a special salt gland in the lower jaw.

Dëgg: Sea snakes drink only fresh water. The salt gland was once thought to filter salt, but it is not used for that purpose. The yellow-bellied sea snake likely drinks from freshwater lenses that form on the sea surface after heavy rain.1

Ngir boroom xam-xam ci daŋar

Turu xam-xam
Hydrophis platurus
Mbooloo
Jaani géej
Njaboot
Elapidae2
Toftal
Squamata
Kontinaa yi
Mbàmbulaanu Pasifik, Mbàmbulaanu End, Géeju Koraay, Géeju Siin gu Bëj-saalum, Géeju Filipin, Géeju Andaman, Géeju Arabi ak Golfu Pers, Géeju Timor ak Arafura, Golfu Bengal, Golfu Kaliforni, Mbàmbulaan yi
Liir yi
It gives birth to live young (ovoviviparous) after a gestation period of around 6 months, and females bear them in tidal pools.1
Musiba ci nit
3 / 5: Lu bon3

Fa xibaar yi jóge

  1. Yellow-bellied sea snake (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Hydrophis platurus (iNaturalist): tur ak ni ñu leen séddale.
  3. Venom Wiki: tolluwaayu musiba bi, réyaay bu yem bi ak xalaatu gaawaay bi, nun ñoo leen defar. Seetal ni nu leen waññe: Ni nuy natte musiba.

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