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New Caledonian sea krait

Laticauda saintgironsi

名字的由來： The species name, saintgironsi, honours the French herpetologist (reptile and amphibian scientist) Hubert Saint Girons.1

需要看醫生很少致命，但被咬了需要看醫生。

海蛇

咬吃：魚類

對人的危險: 嚴重被咬了需要看醫生。死亡案例非常罕見。

The New Caledonian sea krait is a venomous sea snake that lives in the waters around New Caledonia, a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean. It spends time both in the sea and on land near the shore. It is special because it is found almost nowhere else.1

分布在

Waters around New Caledonia, including the Loyalty Islands1

太平洋, 珊瑚海

首頁

It lives in marine, intertidal and supratidal areas. Intertidal means the zone covered by sea at high tide and exposed at low tide, and supratidal means the area just above the high-tide line. It has been recorded from a depth of 80 m to an altitude of 100 m.1

長度

1,1 m (3,6 ft)1

最高速度

大約 4 km/h（2,5 mph）

游泳, 粗略估計

牠吃什麼？

It eats non-spiny, eel-like fishes. The lipspot moray (Gymnothorax chilospilus) makes up about half of its prey.1

New Caledonian sea krait 的照片 — New Caledonian sea krait。照片：moi même。 Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

怎麼認出牠

Has a yellow or cream-coloured upper lip1
The rostral scale (the scale at the tip of the snout) is undivided1
Has 21 rows of scales around the middle of the body1
Females grow larger than males1

常被誤認為： The yellow-lipped sea krait also has a yellow upper lip. To tell them apart, count the scales: the New Caledonian sea krait has 21 rows of mid-body scales, while the yellow-lipped sea krait has 23 banded rows that meet on the belly.1

毒液力量

咬

咬的時候，毒液會從毒牙或牙齒出來。

牠對人有多危險？

對人的危險: 嚴重被咬了需要看醫生。死亡案例非常罕見。

如果牠咬人

加壓固定法：用彈性繃帶緊緊包住咬傷處，再往上包住整條手臂或腿，用夾板固定，並讓傷者完全不動，直到救援抵達。
把傷者帶離水中，趕快送醫院。

一定要先打緊急電話（112、000、911）。這是一般急救指引，不是醫療建議。急救基本知識

注意安全

絕對不要碰、抓或捉弄野生動物，就算是很小的動物，就算牠看起來在睡覺或已經死了也一樣。
給牠空間。如果遇到了，保持冷靜，慢慢往後退，讓牠自己離開。
如果被牠咬了：保持冷靜，保持不動，打緊急電話（112、000、911）或趕快去醫院。記住牠的樣子，有照片會很有幫助。

牠不是想來抓你。牠用毒液來捕捉食物或保護自己，而且牠更想躲起來。更多安全知識

在世界上的哪裡？

非洲亞洲歐洲北美洲南美洲澳洲與大洋洲太平洋珊瑚海

牠有多大？

牠有多長？

跟 2 隻家貓從鼻子接到尾巴一樣長跟 6 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長可以在 45 秒內游完一座大游泳池（50 公尺）

New Caledonian sea krait 跟「你」比起來有多大？

只是在你的瀏覽器裡做算術。什麼都不會儲存，也不會傳送到任何地方。

牠有多快？

一個正在游泳的人 大約 3 km/h (1,9 mph)

New Caledonian sea krait 大約 4 km/h (2,5 mph)

奧運游泳選手 大約 8 km/h (5 mph)

值得知道

小知識

It has been recorded outside its home range only once: a single specimen was found in New Zealand in 1925.1

Its diet is mainly eel-like fishes, and the lipspot moray makes up about half of what it eats.1

Females grow much larger than males. The largest female recorded was 109 cm long, while the largest male was 81.7 cm.1

Its limited range is thought to be because sea kraits of the genus Laticauda spend time on land or in shallow water, which gives them few chances to be carried away by ocean currents.1