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Redtail coral snake

Micrurus mipartitus

可能致命不治療的話可能會害死你。如果牠咬了你，要趕快求救。

咬吃：肉

The red-tailed coral snake is a small venomous snake from Central and northern South America. It is common in farming areas of Colombia, so people living there may meet it. Its venom attacks the nerves and muscles, which makes it one of the more dangerous snakes in its region.1

分布在

Central America and northern South America, including Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and possibly Peru; also reported from Brazil (Rondônia).1

北美洲, 南美洲

首頁

It lives in forests, from tropical dry forests to foggy forests. It is also found in rural human settlements used for farming, which is where people are most likely to meet it.1

長度

20 cm 到 1,4 m (7,9 in 到 4,6 ft)1

最高速度

大約 5,1 km/h（3,2 mph）

在陸地上, 粗略估計

牠吃什麼？

It eats mainly other snakes, along with lizards, amphisbaenids (worm lizards), frogs and caecilians (legless amphibians).1

Redtail coral snake 的照片 — Redtail coral snake。照片：Anton。 CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.

怎麼認出牠

Has a cylindrical body and quite small eyes with a rounded head.1
Black body rings, numbering from 34 to 84, are separated by narrow yellow or white rings.1
The second ring on the head and 3 or 4 of the tail rings are red.1
Can reach a total length of 140.6 cm, including the tail.1
Mostly active at dusk and at night.1

毒液力量

咬

咬的時候，毒液會從毒牙或牙齒出來。

牠的毒液有什麼作用？

Its venom is neurotoxic, which means it attacks the nerves. It blocks the signals that tell muscles to contract, which can lead to muscle weakness and paralysis. Local pain and tingling can appear within minutes of a bite. In severe cases, nerve symptoms such as drooping eyelids, slurred speech, drowsiness and weakness in the limbs can develop within 30 minutes to 1 to 2 hours, and breathing can stop.1

牠對人有多危險？

對人的危險: 非常危險如果沒有治療，牠可能會害死一個人。

Its venom is potentially deadly. Scientists milked an average of 7 mg of dry venom from this snake, which is more than the estimated lethal dose for an adult human of 4 to 6 mg.1

如果牠咬人

讓傷者保持不動和冷靜，並趕快送醫院，就算咬傷看起來很小也一樣：症狀可能幾個小時後才出現。

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

牠有多大？

牠有多長？

跟 3 隻家貓從鼻子接到尾巴一樣長跟 8 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長可以在 71 秒內跑完 100 公尺（最快的人類需要 9.6 秒）

Redtail coral snake 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？

一個正在走路的人 大約 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

Redtail coral snake 大約 5,1 km/h (3,2 mph)

騎腳踏車的小朋友 大約 12 km/h (7,5 mph)

值得知道

小知識

It has between 34 and 84 black body rings, so no two snakes look exactly the same in ring count.1

Its venom is about 60% three-finger toxins, about 30% phospholipase A2, and about 10% other toxins.1

In dry spells it may shelter several centimetres underground, and in heavy rain it comes to the surface or into thick leaf litter.1

The most abundant toxin in its venom is called mipartoxin-I.1

給毒液專家

學名: Micrurus mipartitus
類群: 珊瑚蛇
家人: Elapidae2
排序: Squamata
各大洲: 北美洲, 南美洲
寶寶: It lays eggs. A clutch of about eight white eggs has been recorded, and the young hatch after 73 to 87 days.1
對人的危險: 4 / 5: 非常危險3