Are sea snakes poisonous?

The sea snake is a subfamily of the family Cobra. Similar to the subfamily Cobra, the sea snake is a venomous snake with anterior groove teeth. The tail is as flat as an oar, and the back of the torso is also slightly flattened, also known as the green ring sea snake, spotted sea snake, etc., distributed in the coastal waters of Liaoning, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Taiwan.

Are sea snakes poisonous?

Sea snakes are highly poisonous and belong to the strongest animal poison. Hook-billed sea snake venom is twice as toxic as cobra venom and 80 times as toxic as sodium cyanide. The sea snake bites people without pain, and its toxic attack has an incubation period. There are no obvious symptoms of poisoning within 30 minutes or even 3 hours after being bitten by the sea snake. However, this is very dangerous and easy to make people paralyzed and careless. People who are bitten may die within hours to days.

The most poisonous animal in the world is the fine scale Taipan snake, known as the "king of poisonous snakes". The sea snake is similar to it and ranks as the most poisonous snake in the world. its venom is 20 times that of the king of the cobra, and its venom can kill 250000 mice in 24 hours.

What are the natural enemies of sea snakes?

Although sea snakes are highly poisonous, they also have natural enemies. Sea eagles and other carnivorous seabirds eat sea snakes. As soon as they see sea snakes swimming on the sea, they swoop down from the air, pick up one and fly away. Although the sea snake is fierce, once it leaves the water, it has no ability to attack and is almost completely unable to defend itself. In addition, some sharks feed on sea snakes.

The distribution of sea snakes in China

Along the coast of China, there are 15 species of sea snakes of the subfamily Ceratopterinae and the subfamily Ceratopininae, including the green ring sea snake, the long kiss sea snake, the flat chin sea snake, the ring sea snake, the black head sea snake, the light gray sea snake, the half ring flat sea snake, the green gray sea snake, the small head sea snake, the sea viper, the blue gray flat sea snake, the flat sea snake, the glans sea snake, the canthus sea snake, the spinous sea snake and so on.