Hydrophis jerdonii

IUCN

Alias：Hydrophis jerdonii

Basic Information

Scientific classification

name：Hydrophis jerdonii
Aliases：Hydrophis jerdonii
Outline：Squamata
Family：Elapidae S.snake

Vital signs

length：About 91 cm
Weight：No verification information
lifetime：About 20 years

Feature

Short head, olive-colored back with black rings

Details

The sea snake is a species of the genus Sea Snake in the family Elaphedae. It is highly venomous and poses a great threat to fishermen.It preys on eels and other fish. It is ovoviviparous.

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Listed in the "National List of Terrestrial Wildlife with Important Economic and Scientific Research Values Protected by the State" issued by the State Forestry Administration of China on August 1, 2000.

Listed in the second level of the "List of Nationally Protected Wildlife in China".

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Maintaining ecological balance is everyone’s responsibility!

Location

It is distributed in the coastal areas of India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
It lives in coastal coral reefs and rocky waters.

Form

Head short; snout narrow and slanting downward; nostrils located on the back of the snout; nasal scales tangent to each other; frontal scales small. Dorsal scales weak, imbricate, with strong ridges, 19-21 rows in the middle; ventral scales obvious, slightly wider than adjacent dorsal scales, with more or less tubercles. Dorsal body olive with black rings; the rings are more obvious in juveniles and subadults and form a full ring; ventral surface yellow. Total length 910mm.