sea snake from the Philippines

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sea snake from the Philippines

Postby Bart Smit » Sun Feb 03, 2013 9:00 pm

Someting different than most of the sightings on this forum, a snake from the sea :)

I found two very grumpy sea snakes during my dive trip in the philippines.

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) by BJSmit, on Flickr

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) by BJSmit, on Flickr

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) by BJSmit, on Flickr

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Re: sea snake from the Philippines

Postby Wolfgang Wüster » Sun Feb 03, 2013 10:02 pm

Nice photos, but I am pretty sure that's Acrochordus granulatus, not Enhydrina schistosa...

The scales on top of the head are wrong, as it head shape, and especially the shape of the scales. Also, the tail is rather small and relatively round in cross section, whereas it should be much flatter and paddle-shaped in Enhydrina
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Re: sea snake from the Philippines

Postby Bart Smit » Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:10 am

Wolfgang Wüster wrote:Nice photos, but I am pretty sure that's Acrochordus granulatus, not Enhydrina schistosa...
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You're absolutely right ! thanks.
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