Black-ringed Mud Snake

Order Squamata; Suborder Serpentes; Family Elapidae; Subfamily Hydrophiinae; Scientific name: Hydrelaps darwiniensis; Common name: Black-ringed Mud Snake; Alternative common name: Black-ringed Mangrove Sea Snake – Distribution in Australia: shallow coastal waters of northern Australia between Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia and western shores of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland; Also: coastal southern New Guinea.