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South American coral snake

Micrurus lemniscatus
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。
珊瑚蛇 咬吃：肉
對人的危險: 非常危險如果沒有治療，牠可能會害死一個人。

The South American coral snake is a thin, brightly coloured venomous snake. It lives only in South America, from Argentina to Venezuela. It is nocturnal, so it is most active at night, and its venom is strong enough to be dangerous to people.1

分布在
Northern and eastern South America, from Argentina to Venezuela, including Brazil, Colombia and the Guianas1
南美洲
首頁
It lives in humid and lowland forests, open savannas, gallery forests and lowland floodplains. It is also found in cleared land and near human homes, especially in damp areas or near a water source. It is found from near sea level up to 1,000 m.1
長度
60 cm 到 1,4 m (2 ft 到 4,8 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 long-bodied animals such as freshwater eels, gymnotiform fishes, caecilians, lizards and other snakes.1
是真的！South American coral snake 的照片
South American coral snake。照片：dhfischer。 CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎麼認出牠

  • The snout is black, followed by a narrow white band in front of the eyes and a wider black band across the eyes.1
  • The rest of the head is red, and the body has broad red rings.1
  • Between the red rings are 7 to 17 groups of three black and two white rings.1
  • The tail has two of these black and white groups.1
  • It is thin, and adults are usually 60 to 90 cm long, tail included.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 a strong neurotoxin, which attacks the nerves. It acts both before and after the nerve connects to the muscle, and it causes a strong, permanent block of nerve signals to the muscles in vertebrates. A muscle-damaging toxin called lemnitoxin has also been isolated from the venom.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。

It is not aggressive towards people, but it can bite to defend itself. The estimated lethal dose for an adult human is 5 to 7 mg of venom (dry weight). In laboratory milking, the average venom yield was 8 to 10 mg and the largest was 27 mg.1

牠害怕時會做什麼？

It is not aggressive, but it can attack to defend itself when threatened.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？

South American coral snake 大約 1,4 m 長 (4,8 ft)一隻狗 大約 1 m (3,3 ft)一個大人 大約 1,7 m (5,6 ft)
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）

South American 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？

值得知道

小知識

1

The venom of this snake is strong enough to cause paralysis, because it blocks nerve signals to the muscles.1

2

It is one of the few snakes whose diet includes freshwater eels and gymnotiform fishes.1

3

It is nocturnal and digs in loose soil or leaf litter, so it spends much of its time hidden underground.1

4

It can live in disturbed land and near human homes, not only in deep forest.1

破解迷思

迷思： Coral snakes are aggressive and will attack people.

真相： This snake is not aggressive towards people. It only bites to defend itself.1

給毒液專家

學名
Micrurus lemniscatus
類群
珊瑚蛇
家人
Elapidae2
排序
Squamata
各大洲
南美洲
寶寶
It lays eggs, with a clutch of possibly 20 eggs.1
對人的危險
4 / 5: 非常危險3

知識的出處

  1. Micrurus lemniscatus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Micrurus lemniscatus (iNaturalist): 名稱和分類。
  3. 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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