#yellow lipped sea krait

[fishenjoyer1]

Fish of the Day

Today's fish of the day is the yellow lipped sea krait!

The yellow lipped sea krait also called the banded sea krait, or colubrine sea krait, scientific name Laticauda colubrina, is a well known aquatic snake. The range of the yellow banded sea krait is throughout the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific. To be more specific, along the eastern coast of India and then stretching the coasts of the bay of Bengal to all other Southeastern Asian countries with a coast, including as far as Fiji. Although they are not native to Australia or New Zealand, several populations have been found across their coastlines.

These snakes live nearby coral reefs primarily and shallow bay like areas, as their prey is almost exclusively within these areas. Unlike other sea snakes the yellow lipped sea krait spends significant time out of the water, around 50% of its time once it reaches adulthood. Juveniles spend their time almost exclusively in the water, where they will hunt and rest, but once prey is caught they will leave the water to digest on nearby shores. The speed on land is significantly reduced to that in the water, and as such these animals will attempt to remain hidden during these times, presenting a problem for when unsuspecting animals get too close. Other than to digest, the time on land is also spent shedding old skins, and reproducing.

Hunting is done alone, despite large numbers gathering together before and after hunts, and they eat primarily moray eels. This is done by flushing out their prey from narrow crevices and holes, by probing their head in. They then used their striped tail to convince the eel that their tail is their head, tricking them into attempting to flee in the wrong direction, then once the eel is close enough, they strike. Another thing that the yellow barred sea krait is known for is their venom. This venom is a rather powerful neurotoxin protein from the alpha neurotoxin family, which disrupts the synapses, causing paralysis.

The life cycle of the yellow lipped sea krait is regular for sea snakes. Breeding is done throughout September-December on the gently sloping beaches at high tide, where courtship rituals occur. Multiple male snakes will find a female that they consider large enough to successfully carry eggs. Then, they surround her, aligning their bodies as close as possible and contracting rhythmically, until she chooses one of them. After this, she will lay 10 eggs in a clutch, and hide the nest. In adulthood, they can grow up to 3 ft in males, and almost 5ft in females, and have life spans around 20 years.

Have a wonderful day, everyone!

[snototter]

A yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina) returning to the sea in Sabah, Malaysia

by Bernard Dupont

[alovebizarre]

yippee

my info

[crying-over-cartoons]

INTRODUCING:

The Elemental Serpentine AU!

In this AU, each Serpentine species is getting reworked! They're all getting new, more varied designs, and I'll be making a lot of new species to align with each elemental power in the show!

I'm also reworking much of the lore surrounding Serpentine, since what we are given is inconsistent, and quite vague.

As of now, I have new designs for each of the Serpentine species that appear in the show! Designs for new species to go with the missing elements will come later.

Please note that this AU is a work in progress; the designs I have here are subject to change!

Details about each species are included under the cut~~~

GENERAL AU STUFF

I decided that I want all of my Serpentine to have tails, instead of just the generals. If they have legs, they end up looking more like anthro lizards than anthro snakes. I'll let them keep the arms, though.

In the show, the Serpentine are covered in intricate details. As nice as these details are, they make it difficult to draw Serpentine in 2D. So, more for my own sanity than anything else, the patterns are getting toned down.

CONSTRICTAI - EARTH

I genuinely hate a lot of aspects of the canon design for the Constrictai. Their non-existent necks and random spikes make them look more like horrible little dinosaur gnomes than snakes. For my design, I let them keep the spikes, but moved them so they weren't sticking straight up out of their head. Most important of all, I gave them necks.

Inspiration: Boa constrictor

HYPNOBRAI - MIND

In spite of how it may seem, I did not remove this species' hood! Real snakes with hoods only 'hood up' as a threat display. I decided to incorporate this into my AU. It's not visible here, but my design has false eyes on the back of the hood. I noticed that the original design has snakes in the patterns, so I've incorporated that in a few places. I think I may have gone too far with simplifying their design, so we'll see how it changes as I continue to iterate.

Inspiration: Spectacled cobra

VENOMARI - POISON

This one has received some of the biggest changes in the AU. I felt the Venomari's extra eyes looked quite out of place in my new lineup, since it would be the only one out of a now larger number of species to have four eyes, so I lowered the number to two. I don't like the original colour scheme all that much, so I decided to take a page out of the poison dart frog book and make them bright and varied in colour. They can have a variety of colours and patterns. Like the Hypnobrai, the Venomari have a hood that can't be seen in this image.

Inspiration: African bush viper

FANGPYRE - FORM

I changed the shape of the head pretty drastically, but the colours are the same, even if the pattern is different.

Inspiration: Coral snake

ANACONDRAI - LIGHT

The colour-changing ability of the Anacondrai is so underutilized that I literally forgot about it until I started rewatching the show with my brother, so I've decided to make it more prominent. In this AU, Anacondrai change colour as a method of communication and expression. They can also change their colour to disappear, just like in the show.

Inspiration: Green anaconda, RainWings from the book series Wings of Fire

VERMILLION - FUSION

Each of the Serpentine are born or hatched without visible limbs, appearing as ordinary snakes to the untrained eye. While most species undergo a metamorphosis at a young age, emerging with two limbs, Vermillion do not, and remain in a larval state for their entire lives.

Inspiration: Garter snake, axolotl

MAARAY - WATER

According to the fan wiki for Ninjago, these guys are supposed to be eels, but I thought they were Serpentine when watching the show, and they have the same head model as some of Aspheera's lackeys, so I've made the executive decision to make them Serpentine in this AU.

Inspiration: Yellow-lipped sea krait

[herpsandbirds]

Banded Sea Krait aka Yellow-lipped Sea Krait (Laticauda colubrina), family Elapidae, South Pacific

Venomous.

photograph by Giordano Cipriani

[zoomzooml]

Dragons:TNR Jörmungandr redesign (rework?) concept

(Also I know that my design pushes beyond limits of TNR animation in more than one way but here I just had fun lol)

I feel like he is not intimidating enough in original. He is very small for an "Apex predator of all dragons" (and let's remember that TNR has Giants Realm so-). I expected him to slide way longer when he was escaping his prison. He also had a lot of troubles with catching dragons (it was honestly sad to watch) And yes, as far as I know snakes are expecionally challenging to rig and animate and TNR doesn't have movie-level budget, but c'mon. It's The Final Boss. (*I think that in concept art he actually is longer so perhaps they shortened him to make animation easier (and cheaper??) considering mad speed seasons were coming out)

Sidenote - that poor danger noodle had so little of any kind of build up. It's really sad. And the first time we see him live he: did shitty jumpscare (build up was actually decent imo, but sound effect and bad animation humbled it), had short, off-screen fight with Sky Torcher after which he didn't even kill him (though he did at least leave some nasty scars and broke Torchie's tooth), and then fucked away. For me it was very underhelming.

Low quality clip for those who didn't watch (I hope Tumblr won't take it down).

Coming back to the design. I really don't like his colors. He got wings but to compensate I decided that he's not a good flier. In my mind he is an ambush hunter. And I know that THE Jörmungandr, the spawn of Loki from the myths, did not have wings, and this is pretty consistent as far as I know, but it is not THE Jörmungandr, so yeah

He is in some way mix between King Cobra, Moray Eel and sea snakes (Yellow-Lipped Sea Krait mostly). I changed his hood to be more similar in construction to a king cobra. In short, it is a bit of loose skin and ribs with the ability to move. In my design, the tips of some of the ribs poke through the skin. Now I don't think TNR would be able to animate it (But i'm not very familiar with 3D animation, especially for shows) so in show he probably would just have hood always flared. His head and sail are inspired by mooray eel because they are dope and I love them. I feel that aspects of sea snakes have died in design - they have a paddle at the end of the tail, but this has already been included in the OG design, so I don't feel the need to talk about it. However, like Sea Krait, Jörmungandr is semi-aquatic. He is much slower on land than in the water, but the difference is not as great as with Sea Krait.

I increased his size - and if he wasn't inprisoned he probably would be about 15-25% longer by now. He's old enough to be a Titan Wing but he isn't normal size - he stopped growing a bit after outgrowing average dragon of his species (let's remember that Red Death is Titan Wing as well!).

*Jörmungandr is longer but Red Death is more massive. Avarage serpents are slightly shorter than Red Death as well.

To be honest, I'm not sure if I didn't overkill it with his size. On the one hand he is large, on the other hand he is mostly long and not that massive. Idk

In addition to the scars, I think Jörmungandr would also be covered with small amounts of moss and other vegetation that started growing on him when he wasn't really active (his cave is very wet/moisty). To survive he spent almost his entire life in a state of brumation, being more active when he sensed meal approaching his reach.

Now, in my mind The Jörmungandr is the name of this particular dragon, not the whole species (Midgard Serpents? IDK), and at the same time he is not a "real" Jörmungandr from the myths. Because words cannot describe how I hate that plot.

I don't know how exactly he got his name but I think it was not because of how big he is, but because of his intelligence and mischievous soul. Again, idk.

Jörmungandr is a tragic dragon. In my version he was not trapped by Hiccup (in my version Hiccup never come back to Hidden World, because c'mon. I don't really like THW but if TNR is continity to that franchise they should follow established canon and not wreck last movie and make it completely insignificant. It loses all it's value if Hiccup, his family and perhaps other vikings, just come back and maybe even lived in the Hidden World anyway! If we have to have human marks and structures, etc. in the Hidden World, I would do it more in the style of “Haddock's Cycle” than “Hiccup and Tom.” Essentially, the creator of these changes is perhaps one of Hiccup's descendants, Tom's ancestors - the "soul of the dragon" that Hiccup and before him his mother had, summoning them to the world of dragons to see "Is it finally time? ”, but it never is, not yet anyway. Idk, I'm trying lol)

I have two concepts: There was once a main entrance to his part of the Dark Realm accompanianed by the waterfalls of magma, but now there's only basalt wall. This would make the closure possible for natural reasons and give Tom an opportunity to show off his geoligical knowledge some more.

Or he was caged in human-build prison, but not by Hiccup. I did that little sketch of how his page in Dragon Book could look in this scenario. Clearly different artstyle than Hiccup's to show that he was not the one to write about this individual (tho in show there's already different styles so--) But at the second thought it can be just illustration for species as whole, so anyway

In both cases, there are ways to enter his personal prison but he is too large to use them. They are still usefull as this is the only way prey will come to his reach. Not many dragons can escape his jaws.

He has spent most of his life in a rather hostile environment to which he was not adapted, which has left scars on his body and psyche. When he's not hunting, he sleeps. Hunger has halted his growth.

Jörmungandr is a damaged, dangerous dragon, the victim of fate and unknown past.

The psychological damage has made him hyper-aggressive, even by the standards of an already aggressive species. I don't think he could ever satiate his hunger either - if he could he would hunt and eat until he consumed everything in range or died of overeating.

For this dragon, it seems too late for a happy ending, unfortunately.

Now about the Midgard Serpents (placeholdern name, I have no idea how to name them) as a whole. Apex Predator may be a bit much, given the existence of dragons like Red Death, Purple Death or Bewilderbeast. However, Midgard Serpents remain one of the dragons that feed almost exclusively on other dragons (and sometimes even other members of their own species - they're cannibalistic), and they're damn good at it. When they feel best in the water, they can follow their prey in the sky or on land. They grow quite large and still are able to take down prey more massive than themselves (mostly thanks to venom and poisonous gas).

I think they are the main predators of 'Deaths and Bewilderbeasts (and other equally large dragons) in the earlier stages of life.

[driedupeyeballs]

Agreed

Yellow lipped sea krait

[your-fav-is-a-snake]

could you maybe do Veronica from Heathers??

Veronica from Heathers is a Yellow Lipped Sea Krait!

[snakeenthusiast]

the yellow lipped sea krait is literally alex kralie. guys. look at it. the color scheme....

ANDANDAND NOT ONLY THAT!! But yellow lipped sea kraits are known to have extremely toxic venom which fits really well with Alex canonically having the highest kill count in the series... Not to mention they're also generally considered a non-aggressive species unless threatened... JUST LIKE HOW ALEX WASN'T AGGRESSIVE UNTIL UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE OPERATOR!!! idk idk im losing my mind i may delete this idk what im writint

OH OHOHOHOHHHHH AS SOMEONE IN A SERVER IM IN POINTED OJT.... KRAIT AND KRALIE ARE SPELT RLLY SIMILAR AAAAGJJJH TJAYS SOPERFECT

[snake-spotted]

Happy pride month every day I think about how yellow lipped sea kraits have the same color pallette as the aroace flag

happy pride 🏳️‍🌈🌈 I see what u mean haha have a silly meme :3

credits:

yellow lipped sea krait image

aroace flag image

[kirexa]

. Thats

That's not a sea snake

That's a sea krait-

I kinda wanna new snake for my pfp

[siphonophorespiral]

Aroace pride flag color picked from a picture of a yellow lipped sea krait

[IMAGE ID: a yellow lipped sea krait, which is a blue snake with black stripes, a white belly, and a yellow head, sat on the beach. Next to the snake is the aroace pride flag, which is illustrated in shades of yellow, white, and blue that have been color picked from the snake. END ID]

[oddzo]

In honor of mermay I have drawn the main trio of Camp Camp!

Max is a betta fish, Nikki is a leopard shark, and Neil is a harbor porpoise :D

(Let’s say that this is magical merperson water that both salt and fresh water creatures can live in)

This was supposed to be a silly low effort doodle but I found a new brush and chaos ensued

Because the creativity demons have taken me, I plan to hopefully draw the rest of the Camp Camp characters and maybe some others this month!

(Let’s see how long I last lmao)

Here’s the full list of the species everyone is:

Max- betta fish

Neil- harbor porpoise

Nikki- leopard shark

Harrison- mimic octopus (✨illusion✨)

Nerris- narwhal

Preston- koi (taisho sanke)

Space kid- harp seal

Nurf- Maine lobster (calico mutation)

Dolph- mudskipper (periophthalmus malaccensis)

Ered- yellow lipped sea krait (sea snake)

Jasper- ghost shrimp

David- North American river otter

Gwen- Galapagos sea lion

Quartermaster- electric eel (electrophorus varii)

Campbell- saltwater crocodile

CJ- marine iguana

Daniel- giant river otter

Pikeman- pacific spiny dogfish (sometimes called the piked dogfish lol)

Billy/snake- king snake eel (ophichthus rex)

Petrol- redtail catfish

Jermy- sargassum fish (frogfish)

Penelope Priss (garden mother/flower scouts leader)- zebra lionfish

Sasha- Randall’s pistol shrimp

Erin- dumbo ear guppy

Tabii- lined seahorse (yellow)

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I have never spent so much time researching aquatic life, I’m going insane. Why can’t I ever get involved in things a normal amount.

(trick question, the answer is ✨neurodivergence✨)

[secondtolastfr]

Happy Wavecrest Saturnalia!

The second to last fest of the cycle! This one really snuck up on me, but I think I'm enjoying it nonetheless- here are my thoughts:

Familiar

She's a cutie! And a yellow-lipped sea krait with venom more powerful than a rattlesnake's, so uh. Be careful.

Jokes aside, she really is pretty- I like the wavelike petals of the sweet peas, and the contrast of the yellowish face against the blues and purples is just wonderful.

Apparel

When I first previewed this I audibly said "Oh fuck yeah." Because look at it! Fuck yeah! This combines some of my favorite water-themed apparel, and I think it's incredible. I want a million recolors of it, in every colors of the rainbow.

Gene

I think this gene is one of my favorites. Maybe not as much as Trickmurk, but the combination of fins and waves is stunning. It matches Primal so perfectly, and the dual colors is incredible. Oh it's pretty. I love it.

Joxar Recolor

I like it! I don't have much to say about it beyond that, but it is good. Bottom text.

Favorite skin: Acquarian Lily

The colors and detail is beautiful and all, and the lighting on the water reminds me of Ghibli movies, and the pot itself is lovely, but I'm a simple girl. I see lily of the valley, I go apeshit.

That's all! Happy Wavecrest yall!

[herpsandbirds]

If it's not too big a task, might I ask for one reptile for each color of the rainbow? 🌈

A Rainbow of Reptiles...

In celebration of Pride!!!

Blue-lipped Sea Krait (Laticauda laticaudata), family Elapidae, Batanes region of the Philippines

Venomous.

photograph by @rupertsreptiles

Kuhl’s Anglehead Lizard (Gonocephalus kuhlii), family Agamidae, found in Java and Sumatra, Indonesia

photograph by Marshall Sastra (@marshallsastra.jpeg)

Eyelash Viper (Bothriechis schlegelii), family Viperidae, Costa Rica

Venomous.

The yellow color variant of this snake is often called the Oropelia.

photograph by Greg Lasley

Sahara Mastigure aka Geyr’s Dabb Lizard (Uromastyx geyri), family Agamidae, found in north Africa

photograph by Manfred Werner 

Black-banded Trinket Snake aka Red Bamboo Snake (Oreocryptophis porphyraceus coxi), family Colubridae, from NW Thailand

This subspecies is sometimes referred to as the Red Mountain Rat Snake.

photograph by Julian Rossi

Sunbeam Snake (Xenopeltis unicolor), family Xenopeltidae, Thailand

photograph by Parinya Herp Pawangkhanant

The iridescence of this snake is the closest I'm getting to a purple herp!

[tainted-sweet-meats]

Found a doodle in my sketchbook of my gorgon boiz.  Ajamu the coral gorgon and Gitonga the Yellow-lipped sea krait gorgon.  mmm his snake beard! Decided to slap some color on it instead of letting it rot in my sketchbook. Enjoy!