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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 ...
The yellow-bellied sea snake, as the name implies, has a distinctive bicolor pattern with a yellow underbelly and brown back, making it easily distinguishable from other sea snake species. Yellow-bellied sea snakes, like many other species of sea snake, are fully adapted to living their whole lives at sea: mating, eating and giving birth to ...
Pages in category "Snakes of the Caribbean" The following 73 pages are in this category, out of 73 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. .
Several smaller islands lie off Trinidad, but snakes have been recorded on only one of them, Caledonia Island. Snakes have been recorded on one island off Tobago, Little Tobago. Four species are venomous: two coral snake species (Micrurus spp. [note 1]), the fer-de-lance (Bothrops atrox) and the South American bushmaster (Lachesis muta).
Location of Dominica in the Caribbean. This is a list of amphibians and reptiles found on Dominica, a Caribbean island-nation in the Lesser Antilles.Dominica is one of the few islands in that chain that has retained its original amphibian and reptile fauna over the last 200 years, and reptiles in particular form a significant part of its fauna.
Species Common name(s) Notes Image †Alinea luciae: Saint Lucia skink Endemic, extinct since the early 20th century. Worm snakes (Typhlopidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Leptotyphlops breuili [4] St. Lucia threadsnake: Endemic. First described as a separate species in 2008. Boas Species Common name(s) Notes Image Boa constrictor: Boa ...
The size of mother-to-offspring of large species of snakes (left) compared to small species such as L. carlae (right) Tetracheilostoma carlae. The average total length (including tail) of T. carlae adults is approximately 10 cm (3.94 inches), with the largest specimen found to date measuring 10.4 cm (4.09 inches) in total length. [2]
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)