| blue-lipped sea krait | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Hydrophiidae or Elapidae |
| Genus: | Laticauda |
| Species: | L. laticaudata |
| Binomial name | |
| Laticauda laticaudata (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Coluber laticaudatus Linnaeus, 1758 |
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The blue-lipped sea krait (Laticauda laticaudata) is a species of sea snake.
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Ventrals large, one-third to more than one half the width of the body; nostrils lateral; nasals separated by internasals; 19 longitudinal rows of imbricate scales at midbody; no azygous prefrontal shield; rostral undivided; ventrals 225-243; subcaudals: males 38–47, females 30–35 (ventral and subcaudal counts after Smith 1943:443). Upper lip dark brown. Total length: males 910 mm (36 in), females 1,070 mm (42 in); tail length: males and females, 110 mm (4.3 in).
Indian Ocean (E India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar (= Burma), Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines), coasts of Fujian and Taiwan (R.O.C), Andaman Islands, Bay of Bengal, coasts of Malay Peninsula to New Guinea, Japan, Polynesia, Melanesia, Solomon Islands [McCoy 2006], New Caledonia.