Unfortunately, this sting can lead to cardiac accidents and respiratory distress that can lead to death. Paralysis is possible and sometimes of all the limbs. Sensory disturbances, malaise with anxiety, nausea, vomiting, sweating and even convulsions can be observed. The first sign is an immediate intolerable pain, often syncopal. The severity of the bite varies according to the dose of venom injected, the size of the fish, the number and depth of the bites, the age and weight of the victim, the existence of previous pathological conditions and the time it takes to get help. The majority of accidents occur on the feet when walking on the stonefish (85% of the time) but there are also stings on the hands (15%), especially among professionals of the sea and cooks. Habitat: It is found on sandy bottoms and coral plateaus of shallow depth (40 to 50 cm) in the Indian and Pacific oceans, including French Polynesia. It also has venomous spines on the pelvic and anal fins. Its venom is a powerful neurotoxic that paralyzes muscles and attacks the nervous system. Venomous apparatus: It is equipped at the top of its body of 13 dorsal spines connected to glands with venom, containing toxins being able to resist until 48 hours after its death. This camouflage generally makes it almost perfectly undetectable in the middle of rocks and corals even at very low depth. It secretes a mucus able to retain the coral debris and the algae.
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as it was I suffered no pulmonary edema.Size: Approximately 30 to 40 cm in the adult ageĪppearance: Its skin is devoid of scales. If I had managed to grab it around the more central spines, I would have likely needed supportive care for my lungs. The doctors referred to this as a "dry spine", meaning simply that the amount of venom received was very small.
When I described this to the doctors, they said I was luck that i had caught one of the last spines, as several spines get there venom from a common sac and there are no separate chambers for each spine, so the venom tends to squeeze away from the end spines. The pain in my hand and forearm resolved over the next couple of days and the would healed with basic first aide in 1-2 weeks. In all this minor envenomation lasted perhaps 15-30 minutes, but I'm not 100% sure on that. The loss of vision slowly resolved to a sickly yellow and then slowly back to normal. The skin was blanched and bruised and there was a single puncture. By the time help arrived the symptoms were already subsiding and the pain was receding from the most distant points to localize in my hand and forearm. I was conscious, but communicating was nearly impossible. Everything went black and my breathing became severely labored. My heart rate went thru the roof and was pounding so hard my brother could actually see the vibrations of it thru my chest. I was lucky, in that i only caught one of the last dorsal spines as it slipped my grasp, but I got enough venom to put me on my back (luckily again, i made it the 10, or so feet to shore the pain was beyond anything I'd ever felt, it was initially like an electric shock shooting up from the hand thru my neck and chest and into the other arm. I lived for four years on Guam and caught stone fish (smaller ones) for my aquarium and when I arrived there as a 9 year old, not knowing what a stone fish was, i tried to capture one with my hands. so this may well be stonefish, especially the first shot. Tiger Oscar Fish (Astronotus Ocellatus)Īctually, from just looking at the pix, you can not tell which is which, the stone fish is typically, as it ages, much heavier bodied than the scorpion typically is.Stonefish (The Most Venomous Fish In The World).Sailfish (The Fastest Fish In The World).Mudskipper Fish (An Evolutionary Marvel).Jack Dempsey Fish (Cichlasoma octofasciatum).Platinum Arowana (The Most Expensive Fish In The W.Whale Shark (The Biggest Fish In The Ocean).Texas Cichlid (Herichthys cyanoguttatus).
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