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Turtle-headed Sea Snakes
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Turtle-headed Sea Snakes

Emydocephalus

Emydocephalus is a genus of elapid sea snakes. Unlike most sea snakes, all species of Emydocephalus lack both teeth and venom because their diet consists almost entirely of fish eggs.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species

Eastern Turtle-headed Sea Snake

speciesEmydocephalus annulatus

Ijima's Turtle-headed Sea Snake

speciesEmydocephalus ijimae

Western Turtle-headed Sea Snake

speciesEmydocephalus orarius

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 35254.