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The yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina), also known as the banded sea krait or colubrine sea krait, is a species of venomous snake found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceanic waters. The snake has distinctive black stripes and a yellow snout, with a paddle-like tail for use in swimming.
[11] [12] Sea kraits are capable of diving up to 80 m deep in a single hunting trip. [13] They also have a very large hunting range, with at least 615 and perhaps up to 1660 km2 surface area for the Blue-lipped sea krait; 1380 and potentially up to 4500 km2 for the New Caledonian sea krait. [14]
English: Sea Snake eating Moray Eel, Fiji (Laticauda colubrina vs. Gymnothorax sp.). The banded snake krait (Laticauda colubrina) videotaped feeding on an eel (Gymnothorax sp.) in Fiji. Location was a patch reef off Pacific Harbour at a depth of about 30'. The krait had already killed the eel and was swallowing it when my wife, Marj Awai, found it.
The upper lip is yellow or cream-colored, and the rostral scale is undivided. [2] Specimens can be identified by this yellow upper lip, which is present in both this species and the Yellow-lipped sea krait, and the presence of 21 rows of mid-body scales, compared to the yellow-lipped sea krait's 23 banded rows that meet ventrally. [5]
Hydrophis stricticollis (Collared sea snake) Hydrophis viperinus. Kerilia jerdonii (Jerdon's sea snake) Kolpophis annandalei (Bighead sea snake) Lapemis; Lapemis curtus (Shaw's sea snake) Lapemis hardwickii (Hardwicke's spine-bellied sea snake) Laticauda; Laticauda colubrina (Colubrine sea krait, yellow-lipped sea krait) Laticauda laticaudata ...
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The yellow-lipped sea krait is a timid but highly venomous sea snake common throughout tropical Indo-Pacific waters. See also: List of fatal snake bites in Australia The vast majority of venomous snakebites in Australasia occur outside of Australia, in the surrounding islands.
Yellow-lipped sea krait Laticauda colubrina India, East of the islands of the Sundas; Laticauda laticaudata ( Linnaeus, 1758) Hardwicke's spine-bellied seasnake Lapemis hardwickii Gray, 1834; Annulated sea snake Hydrophis cyanocinctus Persian Gulf, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Malay region