yellow-bellied sea snake

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Sea snake (Pelamis platurus).

Snake / yelllow-bellied sea snake / Pelamis platurus / Reptile / Serpentes.

suborder Serpentes

yellow-bellied sea snake

reptile

Also known as: Pelamis platurus, pelagic sea snake

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Distribution and ecology
The yellow-bellied sea snake (Pelamis platurus) spends all its life in marine environments. It feeds and gives birth far from any coastline and is helpless if washed ashore, whereas other sea snakes live in coastal waters of estuaries and coral reefs. The sea turtles are also predominately…
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The yellow-bellied sea snake (Pelamis platurus) spends all its life in marine environments. It feeds and gives birth far from any coastline and is helpless if washed ashore, whereas other sea snakes live in coastal waters of estuaries and coral reefs. The sea turtles are also predominately…
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sea snake
…Pacific oceans, except for the yellow-bellied sea snake (Pelamis platurus), found in open ocean from Africa eastward across the Pacific to the west coast of the Americas. All other species live mainly in waters less than 30 metres (about 100 feet) deep, as they must dive to the seafloor to…
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…Pacific oceans, except for the yellow-bellied sea snake (Pelamis platurus), found in open ocean from Africa eastward across the Pacific to the west coast of the Americas. All other species live mainly in waters less than 30 metres (about 100 feet) deep, as they must dive to the seafloor to…
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