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Leaf-scaled sea snake

Aipysurus foliosquama
Kudinga udokotelaKuyivelakancane ukuthi kubulale, kodwa ukulunywa kudinga udokotela.
Izinyoka zasolwandle UkulumaSidla: Inyama
Ingozi ebantwini: Kubi kakhuluUkulunywa kudinga udokotela. Ukufa kuyivelakancane kakhulu.

The leaf-scaled sea snake is a venomous snake that lives in the sea. It was once found around a few remote reefs off northern Australia, but for a long time it was thought to have disappeared. It was rediscovered in 2015 in Shark Bay, on the coast of Western Australia.1

Ihlala
Shark Bay, Western Australia; formerly Ashmore and Hibernia Reefs in the Timor Sea1
ULwandlekazi iPacific, Ulwandle iCoral, ULwandlekazi i-India, Ulwandle lwaseTimor ne-Arafura
Ekhaya
It lives in seagrass beds and waters up to 10 metres deep. Its diet is also linked to coral outcrops and crevices, where it hunts fish.1
Ubude
80 cm (2.6 ft)1
Ijubane eliphezulu
cishe 3.6 km/h (2.2 mph)
Ukubhukuda, isiqagela nje
Sidlani?
It eats wrasse and gudgeon fish. It pursues them through coral outcrops and crevices.1
Ngempela!Isithombe sika-Leaf-scaled sea snake
Leaf-scaled sea snake. Isithombe: Kate L. Sanders, Tina Schroeder, Michael L. Guinea, and Arne R. Rasmussen. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Indlela yokusibona

  • Purple brown in colour1
  • Recorded length of around 80 cm1
  • A sea snake, so it has a flattened, paddle-like body shape suited to swimming1
  • Lives in seagrass beds and near coral1

Amandla obuthi

Ukuluma

Ubuthi buphuma ngamazinyo aso obuthi noma ngamazinyo uma siluma.

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: Kubi kakhuluUkulunywa kudinga udokotela. Ukufa kuyivelakancane kakhulu.

Uma siluma

  • Ukubopha ngokucindezela nokuvimba ukunyakaza (pressure immobilisation): bopha ibhandeshi elinwebekayo eliqinile phezu kwenxeba bese ukhuphuka nesitho sonke, usiqinise nge-splint, futhi ugcine umuntu engashukumi nhlobo kuze kufike usizo.
  • Khipha umuntu emanzini bese umusa esibhedlela ngokushesha.

Njalo shayela kuqala inombolo yezimo eziphuthumayo (112, 000, 911). Lokhu kuyiseluleko sosizo lokuqala esijwayelekile, akusona iseluleko sezokwelapha. Izisekelo zosizo lokuqala

Hlala uphephile

  • Ungalokothi uthinte, ubambe noma ugcone isilwane sasendle, ngisho noma sincane, futhi ngisho noma sibukeka silele noma sifile.
  • Sinike isikhala. Uma uhlangana naso, hlala uzolile, uhlehle kancane bese usiyeka sihambe ngendlela yaso.
  • Uma sikuluma: hlala uzolile, ungashukumi, shayela inombolo yezimo eziphuthumayo (112, 000, 911) noma uye esibhedlela ngokushesha. Khumbula ukuthi besibukeka kanjani, isithombe siyasiza.

Asikuzingeli wena. Sisebenzisa ubuthi baso ukuze sibambe ukudla noma ukuzivikela, futhi singancamela ukucasha. Okwengeziwe mayelana nokuhlala uphephile

Sikhulu kangakanani?

Side kangakanani?

Leaf-scaled sea snake ubude obucishe bube ngu-80 cm (2.6 ft)Ikati lasekhaya cishe 50 cm (1.6 ft)Inja cishe 1 m (3.3 ft)
side njengamakati asekhaya angu-1.5 kusuka ekhaleni kuya emsileniside njengobhanana abangu-4 abalandelanayosingabhukuda ubude bechibi elikhulu lokubhukuda (50 m) ngemizuzwana engu-50

Leaf-scaled sea snake mkhulu kangakanani uma uqhathanisa NAWE?

Yizibalo nje kusiphequluli sakho. Akukho okulondolozwayo noma okuthunyelwa ndawo.

Sishesha kangakanani?

kuhle ukwazi

Amaqiniso

1

It was thought to have become extinct at the Ashmore and Cartier Islands, but a population was found in Shark Bay in December 2015.1

2

It is listed as one of The World's 100 Most Threatened Species.1

3

Its previously known habitats, the Ashmore and Hibernia Reefs, are about 1,700 km away from Shark Bay.1

4

Like other sea snakes, it has no gills. It must come up to the surface regularly to breathe air with its lungs.1

Okongoti bobuthi

Igama lesayensi
Aipysurus foliosquama
Iqembu
Izinyoka zasolwandle
Umndeni
Elapidae2
Ukuhleleka
Squamata
Amazwekazi
ULwandlekazi iPacific, Ulwandle iCoral, ULwandlekazi i-India, Ulwandle lwaseTimor ne-Arafura, Izilwandlekazi
Simo saso endle
Data deficient (IUCN). Listed as one of The World's 100 Most Threatened Species; its population is significantly declining.1
Ingozi ebantwini
3 / 5: Kubi kakhulu3

Lapho amaqiniso evela khona

  1. Aipysurus foliosquama (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Aipysurus foliosquama (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa ngezigaba.
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