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.
在哪里、什么时候能见到
"常驻"表示在该目的地潜水时大多数情况下都能遇见它们；"季节性"表示在所列月份内可靠出现；其他任何情况都是意外惊喜，而非计划中的保障。
| 目的地 | 可靠性 | 月份 | 备注 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sipadan & MabulMalaysia | Resident: seen on most dives | 全年皆宜 | |
| Dumaguete, Dauin & Apo IslandPhilippines | Resident: seen on most dives | 全年皆宜 | |
| Banda Sea & AmbonIndonesia | Resident: seen on most dives | 全年皆宜 | |
| Bunaken & ManadoIndonesia | Resident: seen on most dives | 全年皆宜 | |
| Beqa Lagoon & Pacific HarbourFiji | Resident: seen on most dives | 全年皆宜 |
最佳月份一览
深入了解
栖息地: Coral reefs and adjacent shallows for hunting; rocks, islets, and shorelines for digesting, shedding, drinking, and egg-laying.
分布范围: Eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific, from Sabah and the Philippines through Indonesia and New Guinea to Fiji and other Pacific islands.
习性: 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.
体型: 通常约 0.9 m; 记录深度可达 1.5 m (total length; females run far larger than males).
与它相处时的行为守则
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.
保育
Listed Least Concern; localized pressure comes from coastal development of nesting shores and incidental capture in nets.
以此著称的已标注潜点
高亮显示的潜点由编辑团队为该物种标注；数字为1990年以来潜点约5公里范围内的GBIF出现记录数。
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