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