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Redtail coral snake

Micrurus mipartitus

可致命不治疗可能会要你的命。如果它咬了你，赶快求助。

咬伤吃：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

生活在

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

首页

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

长度

20 cm到1.4 m (7.9 in到4.6 ft)1

最高速度

约 5.1 公里/小时（3.2 英里/小时）

在陆地上, 粗略估计

它吃什么？

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.

怎样认出它

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

毒液之力

咬伤

它咬的时候，毒液通过毒牙或牙齿出来。

它的毒液会造成什么？

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

它对人有多危险？

对人的危险: 非常危险不治疗可能会害死人。

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

如果它咬人

让人保持安静不动，尽快送医院，即使咬伤看起来很小：症状可能几小时后才出现。

一定先拨打你的急救电话（112、000、911）。这里是一般急救指导，不是医疗建议。急救基础

注意安全

永远不要摸、抓或逗弄野生动物，即使是很小的，即使它看起来在睡觉或已经死了。
给它留出空间。如果遇到它，保持冷静，慢慢后退，让它走自己的路。
如果被它咬了：保持冷静，保持不动，拨打你的急救电话（112、000、911）或尽快去医院。记住它长什么样，拍张照片会有帮助。

它不是冲着你来的。它用毒液捕猎或保护自己，而且它更愿意躲起来。更多安全知识

在世界哪里？

非洲亚洲欧洲北美洲南美洲澳大利亚和大洋洲

它有多大？

它有多长？

和 3 只家猫鼻子接尾巴一样长和 8 根香蕉首尾相接一样长71 秒就能跑完 100 米（最快的人需要 9.6 秒）

Redtail coral snake和你比起来有多大？

只是在你的浏览器里算一算。什么都不会被保存或发送到任何地方。

它有多快？

一个在走路的人 约 5 公里/小时 (3.1 mph)

Redtail coral snake 约 5.1 公里/小时 (3.2 mph)

一个骑自行车的孩子 约 12 公里/小时 (7.5 mph)

值得了解

事实

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

给毒液专家

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