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Native species in Hawaii: 1 Introduced species: 0
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the Pacific there are around 4 dozen sea snakes that can be found, of them,
only one has ever been reported in Hawaiian waters, the Yellow-bellied
Sea Snake (Pelamis platurus). This is the only open-ocean
marine snake. Even though it does occur here naturally, it is by no means
common. In fact, you'll likely to never see one. Only 20 specimens have
been documented. Marine sea snakes are very poisonous. They are distantly
related to cobras. But, as far as venomous snakes, go these guys are very
timid and rarily bite people. I have swum with sea snakes on several occasions
in the south pacific and even played with them. They don't want to bite
you if they can help it.
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Sea Snakes
