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Turkish deathstalker

Leiurus abdullahbayrami

可致命不治疗可能会要你的命。如果它蜇了你，赶快求助。

蜇伤吃：肉

The Turkish deathstalker is a scorpion from the family Buthidae. Its venom is highly toxic to humans, but scientists also use scorpion venom in medical research. It lives in dry, rocky places and usually keeps away from people.1

生活在

Turkey, in dry, semi-arid regions1

亚洲

首页

It lives in rocky areas with short, scattered plants, in semi-arid regions with dry, chalky (calcareous) soils. It tends to keep away from human settlements.1

长度

9 cm (3.5 in)3

典型成年个体大小

最高速度

约 1.8 公里/小时（1.1 英里/小时）

在陆地上, 粗略估计

它吃什么？

Scorpions eat beetles, grasshoppers, locusts, centipedes, spiders and ants, and can eat small snakes, lizards or rodents if they can hold on long enough. They catch or crush their prey and inject venom to kill it. They are nocturnal and can go weeks or months between meals.1

Turkish deathstalker的照片 — Turkish deathstalker。照片：Dalik Klavalav。 Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

怎样认出它

Brown front body section (cephalothorax), with a yellow head, legs and tail.1
The very last segment of the tail is brown instead of yellow.1
Its pincers and other body parts are yellowish, against a mostly black background on the front body and tail.1

常被误认为： It was once considered the same species as the deathstalker (L. quinquestriatus), but was reclassified as a separate species in 2009 based on mitochondrial DNA analysis. Its tail segments are shorter than those of the deathstalker.1

毒液之力

蜇伤

毒液通过蜇刺出来。

它的毒液会造成什么？

Its venom comes from two venom glands and is mainly made of proteins. It stimulates voltage-gated sodium and potassium channels, which control the electrical signals in nerves and muscles. Symptoms can be severe: after a sting, pain can come in waves with seizures, and blisters can form at the site of the sting.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。

Only a small portion of scorpions are harmful to humans, but this species' venom is very toxic and can cause severe symptoms from a single sting. The sting is much worse in children, and it may pose a serious health threat to infants because of their small body weight.1

它害怕时会做什么？

Its venom is used for self-defence as well as for hunting.1

如果它蜇人

Anyone who has been stung should have an early echocardiogram, which is a heart ultrasound, because the venom can affect the heart. In the case described, the patient was given sodium chloride (saline) and a local painkiller at hospital.1
用冰袋冷敷蜇伤处，让人保持不动。尽快就医，尤其是儿童：有些蝎子对孩子是致命的。

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。
如果被它蜇了：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 块玩具积木排成一排一样长200 秒就能跑完 100 米（最快的人需要 9.6 秒）

Turkish deathstalker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？

一只陆龟 约 0.3 公里/小时 (0.19 mph)

Turkish deathstalker 约 1.8 公里/小时 (1.1 mph)

一个在走路的人 约 5 公里/小时 (3.1 mph)

值得了解

事实

In one recorded case, a sting on the thumb of a 30-year-old man caused pain, reddening, seizures and blisters, and he was unable to move his arm up for a time.1

When a male wants to mate, he injects a small dose of venom into the female to calm her before they move together in a dance-like pattern.1

In tests on rats, the venom of this species had a greater effect than the venom of the Arabian fat-tailed scorpion (Androctonus crassicauda).1

Its venom is studied for treating nervous, immune, infection, cardiovascular and cancer (neoplastic) diseases.1

Birds, bats and mice prey on scorpions, which is why they are more active on moonless nights.1

给毒液专家

学名: Leiurus abdullahbayrami
类别: 蝎子
家人: Buthidae2
排序: Scorpiones
大洲: 亚洲
宝宝: The young, called scorplings, are born alive after 122 to 277 days, and a mother can give birth to 35 to 87 of them.1
对人的危险: 4 / 5: 非常危险3