Sea Snake Reproduction
It is believed that large accumulations of sea snakes may congregate for breeding purposes.
Sea snake reproduction. Little is known of the reproductive biology of the yellow bellied sea snake pelamis platurus a species widely distributed in the indo pacific and eastern pacific oceans. After breeding the vast majority of these water. These snakes are dioecious meaning that their is a distinguish male with male reproductive genitals and a female with a sexual reproduction parts. The beaked sea snakes mates in september and october and it tends to be annual.
Reproduction of the sea snake. For those that live in tropical areas the mating can take place all year long. Those that live in colder areas will only mate in the late spring and the early summer. One sighting reported millions of stokes sea snakes congregating off the coast of malaysia.
However the standard practices include a male and female who are mature finding each other. The young are born alive in the water where they live out their entire life cycle. They reproduce through internal fertilization. These groupings have however only been seen in some species.
Sea snake reproduction except for a single genus all sea snakes are ovoviviparous development of eggs that remain within the mothers body up until they hatch or are about to hatch.