Sea Snakes - They're Tropical Reptiles, but Resemble Eels!

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Sea Snakes Have a Deadly Bite. Don't Piss One Off!

One of the stranger animals you may encounter when you are snorkeling or scuba diving on a coral reef would be the sea snake. It would be wise to give a lot of room to this oceanic reptile. Because sea snakes comprise some of the most venomous and deadly snakes known.
A Banded Sea Snake Glides Toward the Camera




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Unlike eels, which are fish... the sea snakes are air-breathers--reptiles--and must surface occasionally to breath. Also, they lay their eggs on land--usually in caves or protected beaches. Other sea snakes have live-birth--in which the juvenile snakes are released directly into the water after they are born.

And... unlike most snakes, the sea snakes have a laterally-flattened, paddle-like tail that helps with propulsion when they are swimming.

Sea Snake On Beach 

Live Sea Snake at Tarkarli - Malvan

A Live, extremely poisonous sea snake got washed away on Tarkarli Beach. There is no antidote and usually they are suppose to be atleast 20 nautical miles inside sea and not on a sea shore.

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Sea Snake Shots! 

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From the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean--Very Common in the Tropics 

In particular, the Indo-Pacific area...

Although you won't find these snakes in Hawaii (the distances from any other land masses are too much for the snakes to traverse) or in Tahiti, and only rarely are they found in the Marianas Islands such as Guam, the snakes are common in the Republic of Palau, Thailand, The Philippines, Australia, India, The Red Sea, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand and other places bordering the Indo-Pacific Region. These snakes are not found in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Here are some books you can sink your fangs into! 

The Herpetofauna of New Caledonia (Contributions to herpetology) by Aaron M Bauer

The Herpetofauna of New Caledonia (Contributions to herpetology) by Aaron M Bauer

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Don't Do This At Home... Sea Snakes Are Deadly--Especially If You Piss One Off! 

Sea Snake Wrangling with Larry Smith

The late larry Smith proves why he was one of the best underwater guides to ever don fins. Here he wrangles sea snakes with his bare hands and cooks underwater. Amazing guy who will be missed by many.

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Banded Fijian Sea Snake 

Banded Sea Snake - Fiji

Free-swimming banded sea snake/sea krait - extremely poisonous/venomous, but his mouth really isn't big enough to bite a human anywhere except on the hand. Keep your hands to yourself.

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    naturegirl7 naturegirl7 Nov 30, 2008 @ 7:57 pm
    Welcome to the Naturally Native Squids group. Don't forget to add your lens link to the appropriate plexo and vote for it.
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    Classic Classic Jan 27, 2008 @ 8:52 pm
    Huh! Dave, you are at it again! One has to recoil, than one gets fascinated, and before one knows why, one gets carried away to an exotic land with its own delights and dangers. Thanks for submitting this lens to my group Nature and Environment.

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