Black-banded sea krait, Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Laticaudata laticaudata
Family : Elapidae
Order : Squamata
Class : Reptilia
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Ocean,Coast
Description : Blackbanded Sea Krait are banded snakes with a rounded head. Their body is banded with black and sky blue but they are white on the underside instead of blue. Their upperlip is deep brown. This snake is known to warm up in wedge-tailed shearwater burrows.[
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Ophiophagus hannah
(King Cobra) -
Laticauda colubrina
(Yellow-lipped Sea Krait) -
Sinomicrurus macclellandi
(Macclelland’s Coral Snake) -
Bungarus fasciatus
(Banded Krait) -
Bungarus niger
(Black Krait) -
Bungarus lividus
(Lesser Black Krait) -
Hydrophis curtus
(Shaw’s Seasnake) -
Calliophis melanurus
(Slender Coral Snake) -
Bungarus sindanus
(Wall’s Krait) -
Bungarus caeruleus
(Common Krait)
Species groups
References:
description written by: Zarin Tasnim,Department of Zoology,University of Dhaka ; information source:IUCN Red List Bangladesh-2015,www.reptile-database.reptarium.cz; photo credit:Joey Santore(www.inaturalist.org/people/Joey Santore), photo copyright: iNaturalist. more information please contact with us.
description written by: Zarin Tasnim,Department of Zoology,University of Dhaka ; information source:IUCN Red List Bangladesh-2015,www.reptile-database.reptarium.cz; photo credit:Joey Santore(www.inaturalist.org/people/Joey Santore), photo copyright: iNaturalist. more information please contact with us.