Banded Sea Snake

The striped sea snake, listed here as the banded sea snake, is a venomous sea snake. The front of the body, including head and neck, is dark olive to black with pale oval yellowish spots on the sides that are sometimes joined as crossbars, the rear is greyish and the underside whitish. Dark diamond-shaped spots may extend down the sides and form complete rings in the young (Wikipedia, general species account).

Total length is up to 1,100 mm in males and 990 mm in females. The body has 47–58 scale rows around midbody. The account used here gives no information on diet or breeding.