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Laticauda

a genus of reptiles of the family Hydrophiidae (sea snakes). Unlike other sea snakes, the Laticauda have a trunk that is almost round in cross section and a tail that is somewhat laterally compressed. The snakes reach a length of 2 m. There are four species of Laticauda, distributed in the littoral zone of seas off southern and southeastern Asia (from the Bay of Bengal east to the Sea of Japan), northern Australia, and tropical Pacific islands. One species inhabits the brackish waters of Lake Tun-gano in the Solomon Islands.

Laticauda spend a large part of their lives on coral reefs or in the surf zone, where they lay their eggs. The snakes feed mainly on fishes, which they kill with a poison that is less toxic than that of other sea snakes. The most common species is L. laticauda, whose brilliant light blue body is marked with 25 to 50 broad black rings. The largest species, L. semifasciata, is commercially valuable in Japan for its skin and flesh. The flesh is used for food.

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The researchers found the same to be true for a similar banded sea snake species called sea kraits (Laticauda saintgironsi and Laticauda aggregate), which live in more pristine bays in Noum`a.

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McCarthy (1987) proposed that the relatively simple scale microornamentation in sea snakes (Laticauda colubrina: brachylamellate basally, cellular polygonal imbricate apically; McCarthy 1987, Price and Kelly, 1989) when compared to the relatively more complex microornamentation of terrestrial elapids was "perhaps connected with an anti-fouling strategy".

Surface morphology of dorsal scales of red cornsnakes (Pantherophis guttatus) and gray ratsnakes (Pantherophis spiloides) from Middle Tennessee

1992 Notes on egg sizes and ticks of the yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina) on Pulau Punyit, Brunei Darussalam.

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Explaining the find a day after the conclusions were published in the PLOS ONE scientific journal, they said the eight vertebrae they recovered belong to a new species they named ''Leinkupal laticauda.'' That's a combination of native Mapuche words for ''vanishing'' and ''family,'' and Latin words for ''wide'' and ''tail.''

Argentine dinosaur discovery: Long-necks survived Jurassic

Washington, May 15 ( ANI ): Researchers have discovered a new sauropod dinosaur species, Leinkupal laticauda, in Argentina which may be the first record of a diplodocid from South America and the youngest record of Diplodocidae in the world.

First diplodocid sauropod discovered in South America

laticauda Thorell, 1876, con base en la revision de las variaciones morfologicas de los caracteres citados por Teruel & Roncallo (2008).

Rophalurus caribensis, es un sinonimo de Rophalurus laticauda (Scorpiones, buthidae)