Sea Snale

Sea snake any of more than 60 species of highly venomous marine snakes of the cobra family elapidae.

Sea snale. Sea snail is a common name for slow moving marine gastropod molluscs usually with visible external shells such as whelk or abalone. Recently the smallest land snails angustopila dominikae have been discovered in china and measure 0 86mm long. Sea snakes are one of the most dangerous and venomous snake species that roam in the sea. The snail lymnaea.

Some species that live in. Its shell can measure up to 90 cm 35 in in length and the whole animal with the shell can weigh up to 18 kg 40 lb. The good thing about them sea snakes is that they are usually not aggressive unless provoked or cornered. The true sea snakes subfamily hydrophiinae which are related to australian terrestrial elapids and the sea kraits subfamily laticaudinae which are related to the asian cobras.

This type of snakes inhabit marine environments for most of their entire lives and some are unable to move on land. Design by mike emler. Snail moving across leaves. They share the taxonomic class gastropoda with slugs which are distinguished from snails primarily by the absence of a visible shell.

Determining whether some gastropods should be called sea snails is not always easy. There are two independently evolved groups. Most are extensively adapted to a fully aquatic life and are unable to move on land except for the genus laticauda which has limited land movement they are found in warm coastal waters from the indian ocean to the pacific and are.