Reptiles
Banded Sea Krait
Laticauda colubrina · Reptile, family Elapidae, subfamily Laticaudinae; an amphibious sea snake, also called the yellow-lipped sea krait
The banded sea krait commutes between worlds. It hunts eels in reef crevices on breath-holds that can pass half an hour, then hauls out on rocks and islets to digest, shed, drink fresh water, and lay eggs: a genuinely amphibious snake, paddle-tailed at one end and land-capable at the other. The venom is potently neurotoxic, and that fact sits beside another: unprovoked bites on divers are essentially unheard of. Kraits treat people as scenery, threading between fins and poking into holes mid-dive with total focus. The etiquette is correspondingly simple: never handle, never corner, and give a rising snake a clear lane to the surface, because it is on a breath just as you are. Females run far larger than males, and several look-alike kraits and true sea snakes share the range.
どこで・いつ見られるか
「常駐（Resident）」とは、そのダイビングスポットでのほとんどのダイブで遭遇できることを意味します。「季節限定（Seasonal）」とは、記載された月に確実に見られることを意味します。それ以外の出会いはボーナスであり、計画の前提にはなりません。
| 目的地 | 信頼性 | 月 | メモ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sipadan & MabulMalaysia | Resident: seen on most dives | 年間を通じて | |
| Dumaguete, Dauin & Apo IslandPhilippines | Resident: seen on most dives | 年間を通じて | |
| Banda Sea & AmbonIndonesia | Resident: seen on most dives | 年間を通じて | |
| Bunaken & ManadoIndonesia | Resident: seen on most dives | 年間を通じて | |
| Beqa Lagoon & Pacific HarbourFiji | Resident: seen on most dives | 年間を通じて |
ベストな月、一目でわかる
理解を深める
ハビタット: Coral reefs and adjacent shallows for hunting; rocks, islets, and shorelines for digesting, shedding, drinking, and egg-laying.
分布域: Eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific, from Sabah and the Philippines through Indonesia and New Guinea to Fiji and other Pacific islands.
生態・行動: A true amphibian commuter: forages underwater on breath-holds that can pass half an hour, then returns to land. Utterly indifferent to divers, often threading between fins mid-hunt.
食性: Eels above all, hunted deep in reef crevices; large females take bigger conger and moray prey than males.
サイズ: 目安は 0.9 m; 確認済みの最大記録 1.5 m (total length; females run far larger than males).
出会ったときの正しいふるまい方
Give a hunting krait space to work and a rising one a clear lane to the surface: it is on a breath just as you are. Hands stay away, always.
保全
Listed Least Concern; localized pressure comes from coastal development of nesting shores and incidental capture in nets.
目撃情報で知られるダイブサイト
ハイライト表示のサイトは編集部がこの生物種の記録地として登録したもので、数字は1990年以降にサイトから約5km以内で記録されたGBIFの出現件数です。
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