Reef Shallows Sea Snake

Order Squamata; Suborder Serpentes; Family Elapidae; Subfamily Hydrophiinae; Scientific name: Aipysurus duboisii; Common name: Reef Shallows Sea Snake; Alternative common name: Dubois’ Sea Snake – Distribution in Australia: shallow seas of the continental shelf between Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia and northern New South Wales; Also: extending north to New Guinea and east to New Caledonia; Note: DANGEROUSLY VENOMOUS.