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Stokes' sea snake

Hydrophis stokesii

名字的由来： It is named after Royal Navy Admiral John Lort Stokes, and both its scientific and common names honour him.1

可致命不治疗可能会要你的命。如果它咬了你，赶快求助。

海蛇

咬伤

对人的危险: 非常危险不治疗可能会害死人。

Stokes' sea snake is a large, heavy snake that lives in the sea. It is one of the heaviest sea snakes, and it has the longest fangs of any marine snake. It lives in tropical waters from India to the South China Sea, and in the warm seas around northern Australia.1

生活在

India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka to the South China Sea and Strait of Taiwan, and all tropical Australian waters1

太平洋, 印度洋, 珊瑚海, 帝汶海和阿拉弗拉海

首页

It lives in tropical oceanic waters. People most often meet it as bycatch, when it is caught by accident in fishing nets, for example in Australian prawn fisheries.1

长度

1.5 m (4.9 ft)1

最高速度

约 4.5 公里/小时（2.8 英里/小时）

游泳, 粗略估计

Stokes' sea snake的照片 — Stokes' sea snake。照片：Rosario Douglas。 CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

怎样认出它

It is one of the heaviest and stoutest sea snakes.1
Its colour varies widely, from cream to brown to black.1
It often has broad black cross bands across the back, or black rings.1
Its belly has an enlarged ridge, called a keel, which is often broken into two wart-like bumps.1
It can reach a total length of 1.5 metres.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: 非常危险不治疗可能会害死人。

No human deaths have been reported as caused by Stokes' sea snake. Its fangs are long enough to pierce a wetsuit.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珊瑚海帝汶海和阿拉弗拉海

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40 秒就能游完一个大泳池（50 米）

Stokes' 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)

Stokes' sea snake 约 4.5 公里/小时 (2.8 mph)

一名奥运游泳选手 约 8 公里/小时 (5 mph)

值得了解

事实

It has the longest fangs of any marine snake, long enough to pierce a wetsuit.1

Groups of thousands sometimes form and drift together in slicks, about a metre long, in the Strait of Malacca.1

It is one of the heaviest and stoutest sea snakes.1

Its colour is highly variable, which makes it hard to identify by colour alone.1

给毒液专家

学名: Hydrophis stokesii
类别: 海蛇
家人: Elapidae2
排序: Squamata
大洲: 太平洋, 印度洋, 珊瑚海, 帝汶海和阿拉弗拉海, 海洋
宝宝: It is ovoviviparous, meaning the eggs hatch inside the mother, and it produces small broods of five young each mating season.1
对人的危险: 4 / 5: 非常危险3