Thursday, February 21, 2019

OLIVE SEA SNAKE

Photographed on pelagic off Broome.
 126                 OLIVE SEA SNAKE                 Aipysurus laevis

AUSTRALIAN SNAKES                    S26

Widespread on coral reefs of n Australia, between Exmouth (WA) across north and down to central coast NSW. Active day and night; feeds on wide variety of fish, occasionally fish eggs and fresh fish heads. Aggressive, Dangerously venomous.


















Photographed off Broome, March 2019



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