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Blackbanded Sea Krait

Laticauda laticaudata

Classification

Order
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Family
Elapidae

The blue-lipped sea krait (Laticauda laticaudata), also known as the blue-banded sea krait or common sea krait, is a species of venomous sea snake in the subfamily Laticaudinae of the family Elapidae. It is found in the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy The blue-lipped sea krait was one of the many species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae, where it was given the binomial name Coluber laticaudatus.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 159