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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)
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 ...
Snakes of the subfamily Hydrophiinae, the Sea snakes, within the family Elapidae. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. ...
This is a list of extant snakes, given by their common names. Note that the snakes are grouped by name, ... Sea snake. Annulated sea snake; Beaked sea snake;
In general, sea snakes are able to respire through their skin. Experiments with the yellow-bellied sea snake, Hydrophis platurus, have shown that this species can satisfy about 20% of its oxygen requirements in this manner, allowing for prolonged dives. The sea kraits (Laticauda spp.) are the sea snakes least adapted to aquatic life. Their ...
• Sea snake (bottom right) Marine reptiles are reptiles which have become secondarily adapted for an aquatic or semiaquatic life in a marine environment. Only about 100 of the 12,000 extant reptile species and subspecies are classed as marine reptiles, including marine iguanas, sea snakes, sea turtles and saltwater crocodiles. [1]
Grass snake (Natrix natrix) Cylindrophiidae Fitzinger, 1843: Asian pipe snakes: Red-tailed pipe snake (Cylindrophis ruffus) Elapidae Boie, 1827: Cobras, coral snakes, mambas, kraits, sea snakes, sea kraits, Australian elapids: King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) Loxocemidae Cope, 1861: Mexican burrowing snakes: Mexican burrowing snake (Loxocemus ...
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 ...