Yellow-lipped Sea Krait

Found resting in rocky crevices near the waters edge, or swimming freely while foraging for food, around coral islands, mangroves, fringing reefs, and in the open ocean, after which they go back to the land to digest their food. On land they seek shelter in caves, crevices, and under rocks.
Widespread Atlantic, Indo-Pacific

Although venomous these sea snakes have such small mouths they are not really a danger to divers.

Sea snakes have a slat excreting gland under their tongues which helps to avoid excess salt accumulation. They also shed their skin every two to six weeks, more frequently than land snakes. they do this by rubbing their lips against coral or other hard substrate to loosen the skin which is then anchored to the substrate as the snake slowly crawls forward, leaving the skin inside out and left behind. By shedding their skin sea snakes rid themselves of organisms such as algae, barnacles and bryozoans. (Heatwole 1999).

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