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Yellow-bellied sea snake

Hydrophis platurus

Malunga negama: Platurus comes from Ancient Greek words meaning 'flat' and 'tail', which refers to its flattened, paddle-shaped tail.1

Kufuna ugqirhaKunqabile ukuba sibulale, kodwa ukulunywa kufuna ugqirha.

Iinyoka zaselwandle

UkulumaSitya: Iintlanzi

Ingozi ebantwini: Kubi kakhuluUkulunywa kufuna ugqirha. Ukufa kunqabe kakhulu.

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

Sihlala

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

uLwandlekazi lwePasifiki, uLwandlekazi lwaseIndiya, uLwandle lweCoral, uLwandle lwaseMzantsi China, uLwandle lwePhilippines, uLwandle lweAndaman, uLwandle lwaseArabhiya neGulf yasePersi, uLwandle lweTimor ne-Arafura, iBhayi yaseBengal, iGulf yaseCalifornia

Ekhaya

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

Ubude

88 cm (2,9 ft)1

Esona santya siphezulu

malunga ne-3,7 km/h (2,3 mph)

Ukuqubha, uqikelelo nje

Sitya ntoni?

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

Ifoto ka-Yellow-bellied sea snake — Yellow-bellied sea snake. Ifoto: Aloaiza. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Indlela yokusiqaphela

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

Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba

Ukuluma

Ityhefu iphuma ngamazinyo aso etyhefu okanye ngamazinyo aso xa siluma.

Ityhefu yaso yokuluma okanye yokuhlaba yenza ntoni?

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

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: Kubi kakhuluUkulunywa kufuna ugqirha. Ukufa kunqabe kakhulu.

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

Iindaba ezimnandi: oogqirha banamayeza (i-antivenom) okanye unyango lwale nto.1

Senza ntoni xa soyika?

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

Ukuba siyaluma

The venom is neutralised with sea snake antivenom (Enhydrina schistosa). If that is not available, tiger snake or polyvalent antivenom should be used.1
Ukubopha ngoxinzelelo nokunqanda ukushukuma (pressure immobilisation): songa ibhandeji eqinileyo enwebekayo phezu kwendawo elunyiweyo uze unyuke ngelungu lonke, uliqinise ngesiplinti, kwaye ugcine umntu engashukumi kwaphela de kufike uncedo.
Khupha umntu emanzini kwaye umse esibhedlele ngokukhawuleza.

Soloko utsalela inombolo kaxakeka kuqala (112, 000, 911). Esi sisikhokelo soncedo lokuqala ngokubanzi, asilocebiso lwezonyango. Iziseko zoncedo lokuqala

Hlala ukhuselekile

Ungaze uchukumise, ubambe okanye uqhule isilwanyana sasendle, nokuba sincinci, kwaye nokuba sibonakala silele okanye sifile.
Sinike indawo. Ukuba udibana naso, hlala uzolile, buyela umva kancinci kwaye usiyeke sihambe ngendlela yaso.
Ukuba siyakuluma: hlala uzolile, musa ukushukuma, tsalela inombolo kaxakeka (112, 000, 911) okanye uye esibhedlele ngokukhawuleza. Khumbula ukuba sasikhangeleka njani, ifoto iyanceda.

Asikuzingeli. Sisebenzisa ityhefu yaso ukubamba ukutya okanye ukuzikhusela, kwaye singakhetha ukuzimela. Okungakumbi malunga nokuhlala ukhuselekile

Phi emhlabeni?

IAfrika IAsiya IYurophu uMntla Melika uMzantsi Melika IOstreliya neOceania uLwandlekazi lwePasifiki uLwandlekazi lwaseIndiya uLwandle lweCoral uLwandle lwaseMzantsi China uLwandle lwePhilippines uLwandle lweAndaman uLwandle lwaseArabhiya neGulf yasePersi uLwandle lweTimor ne-Arafura iBhayi yaseBengal iGulf yaseCalifornia

Sikhulu kangakanani?

Side kangakanani?

ubude obulingana neekati zasekhaya eziyi-2 ukusuka empumlweni ukuya emsileniubude obulingana neebhanana eziyi-5 zilandelelanasingaqubha ubude bechibi elikhulu lokuqubha (50 m) ngemizuzwana eyi-49

U-Yellow-bellied sea snake mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?

Zizibalo nje kwibhrawuza yakho. Akukho nto igcinwayo okanye ithunyelwa naphi na.

Sikhawuleza kangakanani?

Umntu oqubhayo malunga ne-3 km/h (1,9 mph)

Yellow-bellied sea snake malunga ne-3,7 km/h (2,3 mph)

Umqubhi weOlimpiki malunga ne-8 km/h (5 mph)

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

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

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

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

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

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

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

Umqhekezi weentsomi

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

Inyaniso: 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

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi: Hydrophis platurus
Iqela: Iinyoka zaselwandle
Usapho: Elapidae2
Ucwangco: Squamata
Amazwekazi: uLwandlekazi lwePasifiki, uLwandlekazi lwaseIndiya, uLwandle lweCoral, uLwandle lwaseMzantsi China, uLwandle lwePhilippines, uLwandle lweAndaman, uLwandle lwaseArabhiya neGulf yasePersi, uLwandle lweTimor ne-Arafura, iBhayi yaseBengal, iGulf yaseCalifornia, Iilwandlekazi
Iintsana: It gives birth to live young (ovoviviparous) after a gestation period of around 6 months, and females bear them in tidal pools.1
Ingozi ebantwini: 3 / 5: Kubi kakhulu3

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Yellow-bellied sea snake (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Hydrophis platurus (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
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