Yellow-lipped sea krait
The yellow-lipped sea krait is a highly venomous sea snake. It lives in tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific, between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. It spends much of its time underwater hunting, but it comes ashore to digest food, rest and breed.1

Indlela yokusibona
- Black head with a yellow upper lip and snout. The yellow extends back above the eye.1
- Upper body is a bluish grey, with black rings of about the same width along its length. The belly is yellowish.1
- Paddle-shaped tail, adapted for swimming.1
- Between 21 and 25 rows of overlapping scales run along the middle of the body.1
Ivamise ukudidaniswa ne: The yellow-lipped New Caledonian sea krait is similar. It has fewer rows of scales, and its scales narrow or fail to meet. The dark bands of the yellow-lipped sea krait meet across the belly.1
Amandla obuthi
Ubuthi buphuma ngamazinyo aso obuthi noma ngamazinyo uma siluma.
Ubuthi baso benzani?
Its venom is a very powerful neurotoxic venom, which attacks the nerves. It blocks signals between nerves and muscles, which causes paralysis. In mice, lethal doses caused lethargy, paralysis and convulsions in quick succession before death.1
Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?
Ingozi ebantwini: Kuyingozi kakhuluSingabulala umuntu ongatholi kwelashwa.Fewer bites are recorded from this snake than from cobras and vipers, because it is less aggressive and tends to avoid people. Bites usually happen when it is accidentally grabbed. Most sea snake bites happen when fishermen try to untangle the snakes from their nets.1
Senzani uma sesabile?
It is not aggressive and only attacks when it feels threatened, and its tail moves and looks like its head, which can fool predators.1
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
Kuphi emhlabeni?
Sikhulu kangakanani?
Side kangakanani?
side njengamakati asekhaya angu-3 kusuka ekhaleni kuya emsileni
side njengobhanana abangu-8 abalandelanayo
singabhukuda ubude bechibi elikhulu lokubhukuda (50 m) ngemizuzwana engu-43Yellow-lipped sea krait mkhulu kangakanani uma uqhathanisa NAWE?
Yizibalo nje kusiphequluli sakho. Akukho okulondolozwayo noma okuthunyelwa ndawo.
Sishesha kangakanani?
Amaqiniso
Eels from New Guinea, where this snake lives, tolerated doses of its venom about 750 times larger than eels from the Caribbean, where it does not live.1
Snakes moved 5.3 km away from their home islands in Fiji all returned to their home islands, taking an average of 30.7 days.1
It hunts underwater but returns to land to digest food, shed its skin and breed.1
In the Philippines, these snakes are caught for their skin and meat. The meat is smoked and exported for use in Japanese cuisine.1
Females are much larger than males, with an average length of 142 cm compared with 87.5 cm for males.1
It is the most common sea krait found in New Zealand, where it is protected under the Wildlife Act 1953.1
Umqothuli wezinganekwane
Inganekwane: Sea snakes are aggressive and attack people often.
Iqiniso: This snake is not aggressive. It avoids people and usually bites only when it is accidentally grabbed or feels threatened.1
Okongoti bobuthi
- Igama lesayensi
- Laticauda colubrina
- Iqembu
- Izinyoka zasolwandle
- Umndeni
- Elapidae2
- Ukuhleleka
- Squamata
- Amazwekazi
- ULwandlekazi iPacific, ULwandlekazi i-India, Ulwandle lwasePhilippines, Ulwandle lwaseNingizimu China, Ulwandle iCoral, Ulwandle i-Andaman, Ulwandle lwaseTimor ne-Arafura, Ichweba laseBengal, Izilwandlekazi
- Izinsana
- It lays eggs, as many as 10 in a clutch, in crevices where they stay until they hatch. Only two nests have been reported in the wild across its range.1
- Ingozi ebantwini
- 4 / 5: Kuyingozi kakhulu3
Lapho amaqiniso evela khona
- Yellow-lipped sea krait (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Laticauda colubrina (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa ngezigaba.
- Venom Wiki: izinga lengozi, usayizi ojwayelekile nesiqagela sejubane kungokwethu. Bona ukuthi sikubala kanjani: Indlela esilinganisa ngayo ingozi.
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