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Laticauda laticaudata (Common or blue-lipped sea krait)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The blue-lipped sea krait (Laticauda laticaudata) is a species of venomous sea-snakes Elapidae (Laticaudinae-sea snake) found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
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Infraspecies

Laticauda laticaudata affinis
Laticauda laticaudata laticaudata

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  384 grams
Litter Size [1]  4
Venomous [2]  Yes

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Palawan Biosphere Reserve 2843689 Philippines  

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Thalasseus bergii (Swift Tern)1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Living Hazards Database, Armed Forces Pest Management Board, U.S. Army Garrison - Forest Glen
♦ 3Determinants of dietary specialization: a comparison of two sympatric species of sea snakes, François Brischoux, Xavier Bonnet and Richard Shine, Oikos 118: 145-151, 2009
♦ 4Foraging ecology of sea kraits Laticauda spp. in the Neo-Caledonian Lagoon, François Brischoux, Xavier Bonnet, Richard Shine, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 350: 145–151, 2007
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0