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  • Spine-bellied Sea Snake, 1 of 6
    Photo 1 of 6

    (c) Sanjaya Kanishka, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    Photo 2 of 6

    (c) Pradip Patade, all rights reserved

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    Photo 3 of 6

    (c) Chetan Rao, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Balazs Buzas, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) Rémi Bigonneau, all rights reserved

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    Photo 6 of 6

    (c) harshithjv, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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Spine-bellied Sea Snake

Hydrophis curtus

Worldwide
107 observations
Group
Reptiles
iNaturalist Wikipedia

About

Hydrophis curtus, also known as Shaw's Sea Snake, short sea snake, Hardwicke’s sea snake, or spine-bellied sea snake, but often includes Hydrophis hardwickii is a species of sea snake. Like all Hydrophiinae sea snakes, it is a viviparous, fully marine, and front fanged elapid that is highly venomous. It is collected for a variety of purposes including human and animal food, for medicinal purposes and for their skin.

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