Old wife
有毒液的棘刺The old wife is a striped fish with knife-like spines on its back fins. It lives in the cooler coastal waters of Australia. Its spines are widely considered to inflict a painful venom, so it is worth knowing what it looks like.1

怎麼認出牠
- Silver-and-black, vertical, zebra-like stripes along the body1
- Deep, flattened body with a concave (dipped) forehead, a shape typical of butterflyfishes1
- Two prominent dorsal fins on its back, with the second very long and sickle-shaped1
- Its back fins carry bony, knife-like spines1
- Grows up to 50 cm long1
常被誤認為: The Moonlighter (Tilodon sexfasciatus) has a similar range and appearance to the old wife. The name "zebra-fish" is also used for Girella zebra, a different fish.1
毒液力量
尖銳的棘刺帶著毒液。踩到或抓到牠都會很痛。
牠的毒液有什麼作用?
The spines on its dorsal fins have no obvious venom groove or gland. The spines are still widely considered to inflict a painful venom.1
牠對人有多危險?
對人的危險: 疼痛可能會非常痛,但幾乎從來不會很嚴重。Its dorsal spines are widely considered to inflict painful venom.1
如果牠的棘刺刺到你
- 把傷口泡在熱水裡,水溫要在傷者能忍受、又不會燙傷的範圍內(先用你自己的手試水溫),泡 30 到 90 分鐘。要就醫,特別是被石頭魚和魟魚刺傷時。
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。
- 如果被牠的棘刺刺到: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
牠有多大?
牠有多長?
跟 3 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長
跟 16 塊玩具積木排成一排一樣長
可以在 33 秒內游完一座大游泳池(50 公尺)Old wife 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?
小知識
破解迷思
迷思: It is a butterflyfish, just like the Chaetodon fishes.
真相: It was once placed in the genus Chaetodon with the butterflyfishes, but it is now the only member of its own family, Enoplosidae.1
知識的出處
- Old wife (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Enoplosus armatus (iNaturalist): 名稱和分類。
- Venom Wiki: 危險等級、一般大小和速度估計都是我們自己定的。看看我們是怎麼算出來的: 我們怎麼評估危險.
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