Crocker's Sea Snake
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Crocker's sea snake is a species of snake
in the Laticaudinae family.
It is endemic to a single brackish lake (Lake Tenago) on Rennell Island
in the Solomon Islands
.
It is currently listed as vulnerable by the IUCN due to its extremely limited distribution.
Snake
Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...
in the Laticaudinae family.
It is endemic to a single brackish lake (Lake Tenago) on Rennell Island
Rennell Island
Rennell Island, locally known as Mungava, is the main island of two inhabited islands that make up the Rennell and Bellona Province in the Solomon Islands. Rennell Island has a land area of that is about long and wide. It is the second largest raised coral atoll in the world with the largest lake...
in the Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. It covers a land mass of . The capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal...
.
It is currently listed as vulnerable by the IUCN due to its extremely limited distribution.
Source
- Australasian Reptile & Amphibian Specialist Group 1996. Laticauda crockeri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 July 2007.