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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 ...
English: A hook-nosed sea snake at the Arossim Beach in South Goa, India. Date: 17 September 2018: Source: Own work: Author: Vikramonice: Other versions:
Sea snake. Annulated sea snake; Beaked sea snake; Dubois's sea snake; Hardwicke's sea snake; Hook Nosed Sea Snake; Olive sea snake; Pelagic sea snake; Stoke's sea snake; Yellow-banded sea snake; Yellow-bellied sea snake; Yellow-lipped sea snake; Shield-tailed snake; Sidewinder. Colorado desert sidewinder; Mojave desert sidewinder; Sonoran ...
Disteira major (Olive-headed or greater sea snake) Disteira nigrocincta Disteira walli (Wall's sea snake) Enhydrina schistosa (Beaked sea snake, hook-nosed sea snake, common sea snake, Valakadyn sea snake) Enhydrina zweifeli (Sepik or Zweifel’s beaked seasnake) Hydrophis; Hydrophis belcheri (Faint-banded sea snake, Belcher's sea snake)
Dorsally, the base color of hook-nosed snakes is light brown, which is overlaid with darker brown crossbands.The ventral color is white or cream-colored. The most distinguishing feature of hook-nosed snakes is an upturned snout, which has a concave rostral scale, as opposed to hognose snakes which have a keeled rostral scale.
Wall's sea snake Disteira walli Kharin, 1989; Beaked seasnake or hook-nosed sea snake Enhydrina schistosa (Daudin, 1803) Persian Gulf, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Indo-China, Malay peninsula; Faint-banded seasnake Hydrophis belcheri (Gray, 1849) Peters' sea snake Hydrophis bituberculatus Peters, 1872; Hydrophis brooki Günther, 1872
Astrotia stokesii (Stokes' sea snake) Enhydrina schistosa (beaked sea snake, hook-nosed sea snake, common sea snake or Valakadyn sea snake) Hydrophis caerulescens (dwarf seasnake or many-toothed sea snake) Hydrophis cyanocinctus (annulated sea snake or blue-banded sea snake) Hydrophis fasciatus (striped sea snake) Hydrophis lapemoides (Persian ...