vetusvates
Gamaliel's Principle
I was gonna say Banded Sea Krait, but y'all are such mean people I knew you would make fun of me. 
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Banded Mystery Snake, Oregon
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vetusvates
Gamaliel's Principle
See!?........
vetusvates
Gamaliel's Principle
I'm thinking I have heard the narrator on some show say they came ashore to lay eggs. Like in the South Pacific or Indian Ocean areas. :shrugs:
Seems logical, since they are distantly related to coral snakes and cobras, right?
Seems logical, since they are distantly related to coral snakes and cobras, right?
vetusvates
Gamaliel's Principle
Per Wikipedia :
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Hydrophiidae
Sea Snakes : Except for a single genus, all sea snakes are ovoviviparous; the young are born alive in the water where they live out their entire life cycle. In some species, the young are quite large: up to half as long as the mother. The one exception is the genus Laticauda [which are the kraits], which is oviparous; its five species all lay their eggs on land.
TAXONOMY : Sea snakes were at first regarded as a unified and separate family, the Hydrophiidae, that later came to comprise two subfamilies: the Hydrophiinae, or true/aquatic sea snakes (now 16 genera with 57 species), and the more primitive Laticaudinae, or sea kraits (1 genus, Laticauda, with 5 species). Eventually, as it became clear just how closely related the sea snakes are to the elapids, the taxonomic situation became less well-defined. Some taxonomists responded by moving the sea snakes to the Elapidae, thereby creating the subfamilies Elapinae, Hydrophiinae and Laticaudinae, although the latter may be omitted if Laticauda is included in the Hydrophiinae. Unfortunately, no one has yet been able to convincingly work out the phylogenetic relationships between the various elapid subgroups, meaning that the situation is still unclear. Therefore, others opted to either continue to work with the older traditional arrangements, if only for practical reasons, or to lump all of the genera together in the Elapidae, with no taxonomic subdivisions, to reflect the work that remains to be done.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_snake
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Hydrophiidae
Sea Snakes : Except for a single genus, all sea snakes are ovoviviparous; the young are born alive in the water where they live out their entire life cycle. In some species, the young are quite large: up to half as long as the mother. The one exception is the genus Laticauda [which are the kraits], which is oviparous; its five species all lay their eggs on land.
TAXONOMY : Sea snakes were at first regarded as a unified and separate family, the Hydrophiidae, that later came to comprise two subfamilies: the Hydrophiinae, or true/aquatic sea snakes (now 16 genera with 57 species), and the more primitive Laticaudinae, or sea kraits (1 genus, Laticauda, with 5 species). Eventually, as it became clear just how closely related the sea snakes are to the elapids, the taxonomic situation became less well-defined. Some taxonomists responded by moving the sea snakes to the Elapidae, thereby creating the subfamilies Elapinae, Hydrophiinae and Laticaudinae, although the latter may be omitted if Laticauda is included in the Hydrophiinae. Unfortunately, no one has yet been able to convincingly work out the phylogenetic relationships between the various elapid subgroups, meaning that the situation is still unclear. Therefore, others opted to either continue to work with the older traditional arrangements, if only for practical reasons, or to lump all of the genera together in the Elapidae, with no taxonomic subdivisions, to reflect the work that remains to be done.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_snake
necromantica
snake charmer
Your right I do know, recently slowly moving up from the south king snakes have been found more and more commonly. We also have pacific gopher snakes but they are less likely to come across. I think your friend ran into part of the king snake invasion from California, we have common king snakes and the cali mountain king snakes.