Striped Sea Snake

Sea snakes or coral reef snakes are a subfamily of venomous elapid snakes the hydrophiinae that inhabit marine environments for most or all of their lives.

Striped sea snake. Description hydrophis fasciatus has a small head long body and is slender anteriorly. It has very potent neurotoxic venom which it uses to prey on eels and small fish. How the urban sea snake lost its stripes stripy sea snakes are more susceptible to the harmful effects of water pollution than their black coloured counterparts according to research published in current biology. Hydrophis fasciatus commonly known as the striped sea snake is a species of venomous sea snake in the family elapidae hydrophiinae.

The striped sea snake occurs in coastal habitats in many parts of southeast asia. On thursday a 23 year old british man was bitten by a black ringed sea snake also known as a banded sea krait entangled in a fishing net. There is a marked difference in thickness between the broad central part of the body of this snake and the slender anterior part. The yellow lipped sea krait also known as the banded sea krait colubrine sea krait is a species of venomous sea snake found in tropical indo pacific oceanic waters.

The head is remarkably small and is no wider than the narrow neck region. 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. The fish trawling boat was operating in remote.