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title: "Wiosłogon żmijowaty"
description: "Laticauda colubrina — Gady. The yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina), also known as the banded sea krait or colubrine sea krait, is a species of highly venomous snake found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceanic waters."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/yellow-lipped-sea-krait
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Wiosłogon żmijowaty

> Laticauda colubrina — Gady. The yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina), also known as the banded sea krait or colubrine sea krait, is a species of highly venomous snake found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceanic waters.

- Scientific name: *Laticauda colubrina*
- Category: `reptiles` (Gady)
- Habitats: `sea` (Morze i wybrzeże)
- iNaturalist observations: 1769
- Wikidata: [Q383702](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q383702)
- iNaturalist taxon: [68343](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/68343)

## Names

- en: Yellow-lipped Sea Krait
- de: Nattern-Plattschwanz
- es: Serpiente marina bandeada
- fr: Tricot rayé jaune
- nl: Ringslangplatstaart
- pl: Wiosłogon żmijowaty

## Countries with the most observations

ID (505), PH (403), TH (151), FJ (144), TW (125), MY (65), IN (49), VU (24), MM (22), JP (20), PW (20), PG (12)

## Summary

The yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina), also known as the banded sea krait or colubrine sea krait, is a species of highly venomous snake found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceanic waters. The snake has distinctive black stripes and a yellow snout, with a paddle-like tail for use in swimming.
It spends much of its time under water  to hunt, but returns to land to digest, rest, and reproduce. It has very potent neurotoxic venom, which it uses to prey on eels and small fish. Because of its affinity to land, the yellow-lipped sea krait often encounters humans, but the snake is  not aggressive and only attacks when…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-lipped_sea_krait

## Photo

![Wiosłogon żmijowaty](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yellow-lipped-sea-krait/medium.jpg)

Photo: James Eaton · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/193112468

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/yellow-lipped-sea-krait?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).