第 0265 号，共 1 402 张

Rough-scaled sea snake

Hydrophis donaldi

名字的由来： The species name donaldi honours Dave Donald, the skipper of the boat used on the expedition that found the snake.1

需要看医生很少致命，但被咬了要去看医生。

海蛇

咬伤

对人的危险: 严重被咬了要去看医生。死亡非常罕见。

The rough-scaled sea snake is a striped sea snake that lives in the Gulf of Carpentaria, in northern Australia. It was first found in 2000 but was not formally described until 2012. It is venomous enough to be dangerous to people, and it is very rare.1

生活在

Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria1

印度洋, 太平洋, 安达曼海, 帝汶海和阿拉弗拉海

首页

It lives in the stony, shallow, rocky waters of estuaries. Its murky habitat has low visibility, which makes it hard to see.1

长度

1 m (3.3 ft)1

最高速度

约 3.9 公里/小时（2.4 英里/小时）

游泳, 粗略估计

怎样认出它

Yellow to brown body with stripes1
A single spine on every scale covering the body1
Grows up to about 100 cm long1
A larger and rounder skull than most other Hydrophis sea snakes1

常被误认为： Other sea snakes in the genus Hydrophis can look similar. It can be told apart by a lack of a groove running through the scales on its underside, a larger and rounder skull, differing numbers of scales around the body in different regions, and more stripes than many sea snakes have.1

毒液之力

咬伤

它咬的时候，毒液通过毒牙或牙齿出来。

它对人有多危险？

对人的危险: 严重被咬了要去看医生。死亡非常罕见。

It is venomous enough to be dangerous to humans. Only 9 have ever been found in more than a decade of sea snake research in the area, so encounters are very rare.1

如果它咬人

加压固定法：用有弹性的绷带紧紧缠住咬伤处，再缠满整条肢体，用夹板固定，让人完全不动，直到救援到来。
把人带出水面，尽快送医院。

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太平洋印度洋安达曼海帝汶海和阿拉弗拉海

它有多大？

它有多长？

和 2 只家猫鼻子接尾巴一样长和 6 根香蕉首尾相接一样长46 秒就能游完一个大泳池（50 米）

Rough-scaled sea 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？

一个在游泳的人 约 3 公里/小时 (1.9 mph)

Rough-scaled sea snake 约 3.9 公里/小时 (2.4 mph)

一名奥运游泳选手 约 8 公里/小时 (5 mph)

值得了解

事实

Only 9 rough-scaled sea snakes were found in more than a decade of local sea snake research, while researchers encountered some 10,000 other sea snakes in the same period.1

Divers in the area share the waters with bull sharks, saltwater crocodiles and box jellyfish, which make surveying the area dangerous.1

Its single spine on each scale may help protect it from being knocked against the rocks of its estuary home by waves and currents.1

It has avoided being caught by prawn fishermen because it prefers shallow rocky estuary waters, which are not fished for prawns.1

It was discovered in 2000 but was not formally described until 2012, 12 years later.1