Talk:Yellow-lipped sea krait

Yellow-lipped sea krait has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: October 10, 2016. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from Yellow-lipped sea krait appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 October 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the tail of Laticauda colubrina resembles and moves like its head in order to deter predators?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/October. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Laticauda colubrina.

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Ratings

I changed the ratings on this article. If it is not done right, please change it back. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.250.72.128 (talk) 02:01, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Danger to humans

Article mentions not being a danger to divers (without citation), but isn't it also true that the snakes cannot open their mouths wide enough to get a bite on most places on the human body?

Also, it would be nice to have something on their diet, habitat, other behavior. Piano non troppo (talk) 12:35, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Description

The description section does not meet standard on WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles for description;

Description (physical, behavioral characteristics) - what makes this (group of) critter(s) different from its close relatives?

Moreover, it is unreadable to a layperson. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.51.25.50 (talk) 17:53, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Laticauda colubrina/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Tom29739 (talk · contribs) 10:32, 9 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Criteria

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Criteria	Notes	Result
(a) (prose)	Article is well written.	Pass
(b) (MoS)	Article meets the guidelines for lead sections, layout, and words to watch. The guidelines on fiction and list incorporation are not applicable.	Pass

Verifiable with no original research:

Criteria	Notes	Result
(a) (references)	References are presented in inline citation form.	Pass
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(d) (copyvio and plagiarism)	Article does not have any plagiarism or copyright violations.	Pass

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Criteria	Notes	Result
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(b) (focused)	Article does not diverge into other topics.	Pass

Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each.

Notes	Result
Article is neutral.	Pass

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No content disputes or edit wars ongoing at time of review.	Pass

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(a) (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales)	All images are under CC BY or CC BY-SA licenses.	Pass
(b) (appropriate use with suitable captions)	All images are relevant and have captions.	Pass

Result

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Respiration

One thing that the article does not make clear is whether these snakes can breathe while under water. Do they breathe air and hold their breathe while underwater, like marine mammals, or are they able to breathe underwater like fish?Bill (talk) 18:31, 29 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Billposer: All sea snakes cannot breathe underwater like fish, as stated in Hydrophiinae, since they don't have gills. This could be included in this article anyways to clarify. Sn1per (talk) 05:16, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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