Yaghmour Fadi, Els Johannes, Maio Elisa, Whittington-Jones Brendan, Samara Fatin, El Sayed Yehya, Ploeg Richard, Alzaabi Alyazia, Philip Susannah, Budd Jane, Mupandawana Marshall
Hefaiyah Mountain Conservation Centre (Scientific Research Department), Environment and Protected Areas Authority, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Breeding Centre of Endangered Arabian Wildlife, Environment and Protected Areas Authority, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Sci Total Environ. 2022 Jun 15;825:154072. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154072. Epub 2022 Feb 22.
Oil spills in the marine environment inflict significant impacts on a wide diversity of marine fauna. Despite the abundance of literature describing these impacts on numerous species, no studies describe the impacts on sea snakes. In this study we report, for the first time, details of an oil spill which caused mass mortality of sea snakes. In this study, 39 sea snake mortalities from the Gulf of Oman, in particular, the coast of Kalba, Sharjah, UAE, were examined. The investigated sea snakes belong to four different species (Hydrophis platurus, H. lapemoides, H. spiralis and H. ornatus). The majority (84.6%) of sea snakes were observed to have oil covering 75-100% of their bodies. The majority (91.4%) of sea snakes were also observed with oil covering their snouts and eyes. A large proportion (25.8, 41.4 and 34.5%) of sea snakes were observed with oil in their mouth, esophagus and stomach.
海洋环境中的石油泄漏对各种各样的海洋动物造成了重大影响。尽管有大量文献描述了这些对众多物种的影响，但没有研究描述对海蛇的影响。在本研究中，我们首次报告了一起导致海蛇大量死亡的石油泄漏事件的详细情况。在本研究中，对来自阿曼湾，特别是阿联酋沙迦卡尔巴海岸的39条死亡海蛇进行了检查。所调查的海蛇属于四个不同的物种（扁尾海蛇、蓝灰扁尾海蛇、螺旋海蛇和丽纹海蛇）。观察到大多数（84.6%）海蛇身体75 - 100%被油污覆盖。还观察到大多数（91.4%）海蛇的口鼻部和眼睛被油污覆盖。观察到很大一部分（25.8%、41.4%和34.5%）海蛇的口腔、食道和胃中有油污。
