Long-nose sea snake, as the name suggests, a sea snake with a very long snout that looks very strange. This kind of snake generally lives in coastal areas, but due to the deterioration of the living environment, the number of long-nosed sea snakes has dropped sharply, so few people have actually seen it now. To this end, the editor has prepared the following introduction to the long-nosed sea snake for you. If you are interested, please take a look.

1. Basic information

[Chinese name] Long-nosed sea snake

[Latin name] Pelamisplatura

[Kingdom] Animalia

【phylum】Chordates

【Subphylum】Vertebrate subphylum

【Class】Reptilians

【Order】Scaly Order

[Suborder] Snakes

[Family] Cobraidae

[Genus] Long-beaked Sea Snakes

[Species] ] Long-nosed sea snake

II. Morphological characteristics

1. Body size

The total length of the long-nosed sea snake is 545-707 mm; Long, narrow head, nostrils dorsal, nose scales tangent to each other, head and neck difficult to distinguish; body short and extremely laterally flattened, tail more laterally flattened.

2. Color

The back of the long-nosed sea snake is black, from the head to the front of the anus, with a wide black longitudinal band in the middle, and black patches on the entire tail, back, sides and abdomen. The tail is also black; both sides and ventral surface are yellow, with a clear demarcation between black and yellow.

III. Living habits

1. Habitat reproduction

The long-beaked sea snake lives in the ocean and can be far away from the coast. One of the more widely distributed species, it likes to eat all kinds of small fish and crustaceans.

2. Distribution range

The long-nosed sea snake is distributed in Shandong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi and other coastal areas.

3. Protection level

The long-beaked sea snake has been listed in the National Protection Beneficial or Important Economic and Scientific Research issued by the State Forestry Administration of China on August 1, 2000. List of Valuable Terrestrial Wildlife. In addition, it was included in the 2013 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species ver3.1 - Near Threatened (NT). It was later included in the China Biodiversity Red List - Vertebrate Volume, and the assessment level was Vulnerable (VU). The long-nosed sea snake is now a second-class protected animal in the China National Key Protected Wildlife List.

The above is all about the long-nosed sea snake. Did you have a deeper understanding of it after reading it!