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Sea snake Temporal range: Oligocene – Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Yellow-bellied sea snake (Hydrophis platurus) on a Costa Rica beach Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Serpentes Superfamily: Elapoidea Family: Elapidae Groups included Hydrophiinae Laticaudinae Range of sea snakes shown in lime ...
Hydrophis curtus, also known as Shaw's Sea Snake, short sea snake, but often includes Hydrophis hardwickii [2] is a species of sea snake. Like most Hydrophiinae sea snakes , it is a viviparous , fully marine, and front fanged elapid that is highly venomous . [ 3 ]
The pelagic wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) ranges over huge areas of ocean and can circle the globe. Hydrophis platurus, the yellow-bellied sea snake, is the only one of the 65 species of marine snakes to spend its entire life in the pelagic zone. It bears live young at sea and is helpless on land.
Belcher's sea snake Queensland and New Territories, Australia: H. bituberculatus: W. Peters, 1873 0 Peters' sea snake Indian Ocean (Sri Lanka, Thailand) H. brookii: Günther, 1872 0 Brooke's sea snake H. caerulescens (Shaw, 1802) 2 dwarf sea snake Queensland, Australia: H. cantoris: Günther, 1864 0 Cantor's narrow-headed sea snake, Cantor's ...
Hydrophis peronii, commonly known as the horned sea snake, Peron's sea snake, and the spiny-headed seasnake, [1] is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Hydrophiinae of the family Elapidae. The species is endemic to the western tropical Pacific Ocean. [4] It is the only sea snake with spines on the head.
Elapidae (/ ə ˈ l æ p ə d iː /, commonly known as elapids / ˈ ɛ l ə p ə d z /, from Ancient Greek: ἔλαψ élaps, variant of ἔλλοψ éllops "sea-fish") [6] is a family of snakes characterized by their permanently erect fangs at the front of the mouth.
• 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]
The olive-headed sea snake (Hydrophis major), also known as the greater sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Geographic range