Oil spill causes mass mortality of sea snakes in the Gulf of Oman

Autor:	Fadi Yaghmour, Johannes Els, Elisa Maio, Brendan Whittington-Jones, Fatin Samara, Yehya El Sayed, Richard Ploeg, Alyazia Alzaabi, Susannah Philip, Jane Budd, Marshall Mupandawana
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Hydrophiidae Environmental Engineering Oman Environmental Chemistry Animals Petroleum Pollution Pollution Waste Management and Disposal
Zdroj:	The Science of the total environment. 825
ISSN:	1879-1026
Popis:	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.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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