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[7] [8] Many snake experts have cited the black mamba and the coastal taipan as the world's most dangerous, albeit not the most venomous snakes. [9] [10] [11] Both species are elapids, and in several aspects of morphology, ecology and behavior, the coastal taipan is strongly convergent with the black mamba. [12]
A hook-nosed sea snake seen on Arossim Beach, South Goa, India. This snake was found in a fishing net and later released to the sea. Hydrophis schistosus, commonly known as the beaked sea snake, hook-nosed sea snake, common sea snake, or the Valakadeyan sea snake, is a highly venomous species of sea snake common throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific.
Belcher's sea snake, which many times is mistakenly called the hook-nosed sea snake (Enhydrina schistosa), has been erroneously popularized as the most venomous snake in the world, due to Ernst and Zug's published book Snakes in Question: The Smithsonian Answer Book from 1996. Associate Professor Bryan Grieg Fry, a prominent venom expert, has ...
Australian black snakes (Pseudechis) All true cobras (Naja spp.), including the Indian cobra (Naja naja) King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) Coral snakes (Micrurus, Leptomicrurus, and Micruroides spp.) Belcher's sea snake (Hydrophis belcheri) Dubois' sea snake (Aipysurus duboisii) Brown snakes (Pseudonaja), including the eastern brown snake ...
Sea snakes were at first regarded as a unified and separate family, the Hydrophiidae, that later came to comprise two subfamilies: the Hydrophiinae, or true/aquatic sea snakes (now 6 genera with 64 species), and the more primitive Laticaudinae, or sea kraits (one genus, Laticauda, with eight species). Eventually, as just how closely related the ...
[13] Belcher's sea snake's actual LD 50 (recorded only intramuscularly) is 0.24 mg/kg [103] and 0.155 mg/kg, [102] less lethal than other sea snakes such as the olive sea snake (Aipysurus laevis) 0.09 mg/kg and the most toxic intramuscularly, recorded of the sea snakes – the black-banded robust sea snake (Hydrophis melanosoma) 0.082 mg
The yellow-bellied sea snake can live its entire adult life in the open ocean. Contrary to past beliefs, sea snakes require fresh water to survive and the yellow-bellied sea snake drinks precipitation that forms on the surface of sea water. [40] This species has been reported to survive severe dehydration of up to 7 months during seasonal ...
The fangs are 1.8 mm long, which are relatively short for a snake, and the venom yield is 0.43 mg. [10] Aipysurus duboisii is a crepuscular species, meaning that it is most active at dawn and dusk. [11] It is the most venomous sea snake, and one of the top three most venomous snakes in the world. [12] [13] [14]