Sea Kraits
Laticaudinae
Laticauda or sea kraits are a genus of venomous elapid snakes from the subfamily Hydrophiinae. They are semi-aquatic: they retain the wide ventral scales typical of terrestrial snakes for moving on land but also have paddle-shaped tails for swimming. Sea kraits are often confused with another group of aquatic reptiles: sea snakes. However, unlike the fully aquatic ovoviviparous sea snakes, sea kraits are oviparous and must come to land to digest prey and lay eggs. They...
1 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first · about 8 known species
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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 492347.