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Hydrophis belcheri

Belcher's sea snake

Venomous 💀💀💀💀 Very dangerous ref
Images provided by Flickr-/iNaturalist-API. Sporadic false assignments may occur.

Warning. 

The bite of most elapids is not painful. You can be bitten and envenomated without noticing it.

  • Snake Length

  • ??? cm - 122 cm ref

  • Dentition

  • front-fanged

  • Weight

  • ??? gr - 260 gr ref

  • D.movability

  • fixed

  • Pupil shape (closed state)

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  • Teeth/Fang Length

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Altitude range

Vertical distribution

??? to ??? meter above sea level (a.s.l.)

Subspecies & Common Names


Hydrophis belcheri  0 EN Belcher's sea snake, Captain Belcher's Sea Snake, Faint banded sea snake

Full Taxonomy

  • I. Superfamily Colubroidea

  • Colubrids, elapids and vipers

  • II. Family Elapidae

  • Elapids

  • III. Subfamily Hydrophiinae

  • Sea snakes

  • IV. Genus Hydrophis

  • Sea snakes

  • V. Species Hydrophis belcheri

  • Belcher's sea snake

  • VI. snakeID

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