Animal Unique | Sea Snake | Sea snakes are very shy and avoid contact with people. Even if it causes a bite, they will usually use a small amount of poison. In fact it is used to immobilize prey and not for the defense. Sea snakes are generally very small and have short fangs incapable of causing much damage. However, to think that a bite is a serious accident is a big misconception. Even the short fangs can penetrate the skin, so the poison in the blood going. It is said that snakes can open their mouth wide enough to bite a man in the thigh.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Elapidae, Boie, 1827
Subfamily: Hydrophiinae
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Elapidae, Boie, 1827
Subfamily: Hydrophiinae
If provoked, the Sea snake is very aggressive and persistent, especially during the mating season in winter. Though they evolved from terrestrial ancestors, most are extensively adapted to a fully aquatic and are unable to move on land, except for the genus Laticauda, which retain ancestral characteristics, resulting in little soil movement. They are found in warm coastal waters of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean.
Most Sea snakes are completely waterproof and have adapted to their environment in many ways, the most characteristic of which a paddle-like tail, which has increased their swimming skills. Since it is easier for a snake tongue to the olfactory function underwater to comply, its action is short compared to those of terrestrial snakes. Only the forked tips protrude from the mouth through a divided notch in the middle of the rostral scale.
Most types of Sea snakes able to breathe through the top of their skin. This is unusual for reptiles, because their skin is thick and scaly, but experiments with the black-yellow sea snake. Like other land animals that are adapted to live in a marine environment, sea snakes occupy considerably more salt than their terrestrial relatives through their diet, and when seawater accidentally swallowed. This meant they needed a more effective way of controlling the salt concentration in their blood evolve.
Most Sea snakes chasing fish, especially eels. The last stiffens and dies within seconds when bitten. A species prefers mollusks and crustaceans such as shrimp, while a few others to feed only on fish eggs, which is unusual for a poisonous snake. The sea snake bite is painless. However, half hour later the following symptoms: rigidity, muscle pain and spasms of the jaw, pain in the limbs bitten. The powerful neurotoxins in the poison causes blurred vision, drowsiness and paralysis of respiratory muscles.
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