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People performing the Víbora de la Mar game. LA VÍBORA DE LA MAR (lit. The sea snake) is a traditional singing game originating in Mexico. Participants hold hands creating the “snake” and they run around the playground. It is a popular children's game in Mexico and Latin America, and also in Spain where it is known as "pasemisí". This ...
The majority of adult sea snakes species grow to between 120 and 150 cm (4 and 5 ft) in length, [6] with the largest, Hydrophis spiralis, reaching a maximum of 3 m (10 ft). [7] Their eyes are relatively small with a round pupil [8] and most have nostrils located dorsally. [9]
The head, in the young, is black, with a yellow horseshoe-shaped marking; in the adult, the head is usually yellow. Total length in males is about 1.62 metres (5.3 ft), and females 1.83 metres (6.0 ft); tail lengths are 140 millimetres (5.5 in) and 120 millimetres (4.7 in) in males and females respectively.
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 ]
Cantor's narrow-headed sea snake, Cantor's small-headed sea snake H. coggeri (Kharin, 1984) 0 slender-necked sea snake, Cogger's sea snake [2] Western Australia: H. curtus (Shaw, 1802) 0 Shaw's sea snake, short sea snake, Hardwicke's sea snake, spine-bellied sea snake H. cyanocinctus: Daudin, 1803 0 annulated sea snake, blue-banded sea snake H ...
Emydocephalus ijimae, commonly known as Ijima's sea snake and turtlehead sea snake, is a species of snake in the family Elapidae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The species occurs in East Asia , in the shallow coastal waters of the north-western Pacific Ocean. [ 1 ]
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.
Hydrophiinae is a subfamily of venomous snakes in the family Elapidae. It contains most sea snakes and many genera of venomous land snakes found in Australasia, such as the taipans (Oxyuranus), tiger snakes (Notechis), brown snakes (Pseudonaja) and death adders (Acanthophis). [2] [3] Hydrophis jerdonii, Jerdon's sea snake