{"id":13672,"date":"2023-08-03T01:56:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T20:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13672"},"modified":"2025-04-02T06:18:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T00:48:40","slug":"what-is-the-yellow-bellied-sea-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-yellow-bellied-sea-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Yellow-bellied Sea Snake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Yellow-bellied Sea Snake:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Yellow-bellied Sea Snake is a <strong>highly venomous<\/strong> species of snake that <strong>belongs to the subfamily Hydrophiinae (the sea snakes).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Scientific Name: <\/strong><i><strong>Pelamis platurus<\/strong><\/i><\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>This snake is considered the <strong>most widely-distributed<\/strong> snake in the world.<\/li>\n<li>It is found in <strong>tropical and subtropical waters<\/strong> around the world.<\/li>\n<li>It is found in tropical ocean waters in the <strong>Indian and Pacific Oceans,<\/strong> including the coasts of <strong>Africa, Asia, Australia, Mexico<\/strong>, including Baja California, <strong>and Central America.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Adult length <strong>averages 3 feet (0.9 meter<\/strong>). The snake has <strong>smooth scales<\/strong> and a <strong>sleekly shaped body.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has a <strong>distinctive bicolor pattern<\/strong> with a <strong>yellow underbelly<\/strong> and <strong>brown back with a flattened yellow tail<\/strong> with <strong>large black spots.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>a diurnal sea<\/strong> snake and <strong>primarily aquatic<\/strong>, living its <strong>entire life cycle at sea.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This snake <strong>can spend up to 3 hours underwater<\/strong> without surfacing.<\/li>\n<li>Adaptations to aquatic life include the <strong>reduced ventral scale size,<\/strong> <strong>laterally compressed body and paddle-tail for swimming<\/strong>, <strong>valved nostrils<\/strong> and <strong>palatine seal for excluding seawater<\/strong>, and cutaneous gas exchange for prolonging dive times.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This species can u<strong>ptake up to 33% of its oxygen requirements through the skin while diving and swimming<\/strong> at the surface of the water.<\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>carnivores (piscivores) and eat only fish<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation Status:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN Red List: Least Concern<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What are Piscivores animals?<\/h3>\n<p>Piscivores are a group of animals that primarily feed on fish as their primary food source. They are specialized predators with adaptations that allow them to catch and consume fish efficiently. Piscivory is a common feeding strategy observed in various animal species across different habitats, including aquatic and terrestrial environments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news9live.com\/india\/most-poisonous-yellow-bellied-snake-found-in-bay-of-bengal-experts-say-snake-bite-can-paralyse-humans-2234771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>\u2018Most poisonous\u2019 yellow-bellied snake found in Bay of Bengal; experts say snake bite can paralyse humans<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yellow-bellied Sea Snake is a highly venomous species of snake that belongs to the subfamily Hydrophiinae (the sea snakes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}