🐍Banded sea krait
The yellow-lipped sea krait, also known as the banded sea krait or colubrine sea krait, is a species of highly venomous snake found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceanic waters. The snake has distinctive black stripes and a yellow snout, with a paddle-like tail for use in swimming.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2010.
- Body mass
- 0.59 kg
- Body length
- 1.42 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Banded sea krait
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.59 kgmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length1.42 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 1.5 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
DietCarnivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeACTReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousYesReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Snout–vent length1.27 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female1.25 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
- Male1.27 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l0.6 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Banded sea krait yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classSquamata
- ›familyElapidae
- ›genusLaticauda
- ›speciesLaticauda colubrina
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- subfamilyLaticaudinae
- genusLaticauda
All 13 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- subfamilyLaticaudinae
- genusLaticauda
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