Difference between Sea snakes and Sea Kraits?

Question

Don't sea snakes have paddled tails and give live birth while kraits lay eggs or something. I can't ever remeber the difference.

Answer 1

The biggest difference between the two is that kraits return to the land to lay their eggs. A sea snake can live its whole life without ever touching land. Its eggs develop and grow inside the mother.

Answer 2

Sea Kraits

Answer 3

Sea Kraits:Amphibious sea kraits are characterized by one feature that is an obvious aid in swimming, a broad paddle-like tail. It shares other features such as broad belly scales and lateral nostrils with its terrestrial relatives.

Sea snakes: Sea snakes are air breathers probably descended from a family of Australian land snakes. They inhabit the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific and are highly venomous. Thirty-two species have been identified in the waters about the Barrier Reef in Australia. They seem to congregate in certain areas in the region about the swain Reefs and the Keppel Islands.
Both can be considered sea snakes in loose terms.

Answer 4

I do not know where you got your information, but kraits are a landed snake. Lay eggs and live in India. Never heard of water and krait in the same sentence.

PS " Sea Krait " needs to be written just like that, as it is a misnomer to call these sea snakes, kraits. Whole different genus and species. This is why zoology is in a taxonomic mess; every one running around calling anything, everything.

Answer 5

Look carefully and there is no way to confuse them. Eels have fins. The scales are different (yes, eels do have a few tiny scales). Eels have gills, snakes, lungs. The skeletons are quite different. BTW, common eels can and do move around outside the water, usually after a rain, while the grass is wet. Some sea snakes never come ashore; some do.