Aipysurus laevis Lacépède, 1804

Karin, Benjamin R., Stubbs, Alexander L., Arifin, Umilaela, Bloch, Luke M., Ramadhan, G., Iskandar, Djoko T., Arida, Evy, Reilly, Sean B., Kusnadi, Agus & Mcguire, Jimmy A., 2018, The herpetofauna of the Kei Islands (Maluku, Indonesia): Comprehensive report on new and historical collections, biogeographic patterns, conservation concerns, and an annotated checklist of species from Kei Kecil, Kei Besar, Tam, and Kur, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 66, pp. 704-738 : 730

Aipysurus laevis Lacépède, 1804

Type locality. Locker Island, near Onslow , Western Australia .

Distribution in the Kei Islands. Reported by Boulenger (1896, p. 305), this marine species is likely widely distributed throughout the Banda Sea. We did not collect any specimens ourselves.

Natural history. Venomous. Viviparous marine snake.

Field identification. A uniformly brown sea snake with a distinctly compressed, paddle-like tail. Scales smooth; 21–25 mid-body scale rows; 137–162 ventrals; SVL to 1550 mm; tail to 170 mm ( de Rooij, 1917, p. 220).