Unlike its related species, the yellow - bellied sea snake (Hydrophis platurus),
the yellow sea snake subspecies lives in a significantly more hostile environment — the waters in the gulf are warmer, often turbulent, and the dissolved oxygen in them occasionally drops to extremely low levels.
SEEING
YELLOW A newly discovered sea snake subspecies (top) is shorter — and a lot brighter — than its yellow - bellied brethren (bo
YELLOW A newly discovered
sea snake subspecies (top) is shorter — and a lot brighter — than its
yellow - bellied brethren (bo
yellow - bellied brethren (bottom).
Carrying its petite frame and all -
yellow skin, the recently scrutinized
sea snake populations from Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica, already seem different enough to be characterized as a new subspecies.
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yellow - legged frog Sierra Nevada red fox Siskiyou Mountains salamander Sonora tiger salamander Southwestern willow flycatcher Spotted seal Spring pygmy sunfish Staghorn coral Tahoe
yellow cress Tricolored blackbird Tucson shovel - nosed snake Virgin river spinedace Western brook lamprey Western burrowing owl (California) Western gull - billed tern Yellow - billed cuckoo Yellow - billed loon Yosemit
yellow cress Tricolored blackbird Tucson shovel - nosed
snake Virgin river spinedace Western brook lamprey Western burrowing owl (California) Western gull - billed tern
Yellow - billed cuckoo Yellow - billed loon Yosemit
Yellow - billed cuckoo
Yellow - billed loon Yosemit
Yellow - billed loon Yosemite toad