Crocker's sea snake (Laticauda crockeri) is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Hydrophiinae of the family Elapidae. The species is native to Oceania.
The specific name, crockeri, is in honor of American railroad magnate Charles Templeton Crocker (1885-1948), who allowed the California Academy of Sciences to use his yacht, the Zaca, for scientific expeditions.
Precocial species are those in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching. Precocial species are normall...
Sea snakes, or coral reef snakes, are a subfamily of elapid snakes that inhabit marine environments for most or all of their lives. Most are venomo...
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starts withL. crockeri is sexually dimorphic, with females growing to be longer and heavier than males. Females may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 80 cm (31 in), but males may attain only 62 cm (24 in) in SVL. Maximum tail length is about 9 cm (3.5 in) in both sexes.
L. crockeri is endemic to a single brackish lake (Lake Te-Nggano) on Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands.
