Banded Sea Snake. (Alan Delmas)
Banded Sea Snake (Laticauda colubrina)
Sea Snakes have developed anatomical features streamlined for adaptation to an aquatic environment. Evolutionary marvels living at sea, Sea Snakes must still surface to breath air unlike eels, underwater neighbors who share the same habitat, like the moray eel, who have gills for absorbing oxygen and are absent of any scales.
Their venom is 10x more lethal than the venom of the landbased Rattlesnake, Africa’s deadly Black Mamba or the Royal Cobra but are quite friendly and rarely aggressive.