Toxicity and Treatment of Sea Snake Envenomation,

In recent years, increasing interest has been directed to the sea snakes of the family Hydrophidae with special attention to their behavior, general biology, and the chemical nature of their venoms. Perhaps the greatest current interest in sea snakes lies in the probability of one species, Pelamis platurus the yellow bellied sea snake, being an early immigrant into the Caribbean Sea from the Pacific Ocean when a Middle American sea-level canal is constructed. At present no resident, reproducing population of sea snakes of any species has been described from the Caribbean Sea or the Atlantic Ocean.