kraits

Cobras and banded kraits, two of the world's deadliest snakes, are common in the jungle.

Barry Toll 2010

Sea kraits: radical intraspecific diversity, reproductive isolation, and site fidelity

Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

Darren Naish: Tetrapod Zoology: Sea kraits: radical intraspecific diversity, reproductive isolation, and site fidelity

Sea kraits: radical intraspecific diversity, reproductive isolation, and site fidelity Darren Naish 2006

Coming next: ecomorphological flexibility in sea kraits.

‘A miniature plesiosaur without flippers’: surreal morphologies and surprising behaviours in sea snakes Darren Naish 2006

Sea kraits: radical intraspecific diversity, reproductive isolation, and site fidelity

Sea kraits: radical intraspecific diversity, reproductive isolation, and site fidelity Darren Naish 2006

Though sea snakes all possess a vertically flat, paddle-like tail (a feature not seen in any other snakes), most snake experts have agreed that the term ‘sea snake’ includes two quite different groups of aquatic elapids: the laticaudids, or sea kraits, and the hydrophiids (or hydrophids or hydropheids), or true sea snakes.

Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

In view of all this intraspecific variability, Shine & Shetty (2001a) noted how Yellow-lipped sea kraits might ‘offer exceptional opportunities to study phylogenetic shift in locomotor ability’ because they ‘display considerable intraspecific and interspecific diversity in terms of the degree to which they use terrestrial vs. aquatic habits’ (p. 338).

Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

In view of all this intraspecific variability, Shine & Shetty (2001a) noted how Yellow-lipped sea kraits might ‘offer exceptional opportunities to study phylogenetic shift in locomotor ability’ because they ‘display considerable intraspecific and interspecific diversity in terms of the degree to which they use terrestrial vs. aquatic habits’ (p. 338).

Sea kraits: radical intraspecific diversity, reproductive isolation, and site fidelity Darren Naish 2006

Coming next: ecomorphological flexibility in sea kraits.

Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

Though sea snakes all possess a vertically flat, paddle-like tail (a feature not seen in any other snakes), most snake experts have agreed that the term ‘sea snake’ includes two quite different groups of aquatic elapids: the laticaudids, or sea kraits, and the hydrophiids (or hydrophids or hydropheids), or true sea snakes.

‘A miniature plesiosaur without flippers’: surreal morphologies and surprising behaviours in sea snakes Darren Naish 2006