Aquatic Snakes of Southeast Asia
Sea Kraits






Features

Amphibious sea kraits are characterized by one feature that is an obvious aid in swimming, a broad paddle-like tail.  It shares other features such as broad belly scales and lateral nostrils with its terrestrial relatives.  The life history and ecology of the brown-lipped sea krait (Laticauda laticaudata) and the yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina) have been studied in New Caledonia (Saint Girons, 1964), Fiji (Guinea, 1994; Shetty, 2000) and Borneo (Voris & Voris, 1995).













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