Sea snake or terrestrial snake

[Iceyak]

This will sound strange!!!!!

Last week I was fishing from my kayak and all of a sudden I feel something hit my leg and when I looked there it was a snake crawling from the water to my kayak. My guess it jumped from the water. It curled up below the seat. It was small maybe a foot in length very small head compared to the body and tiny tail tip. It had dark striped/band and it was beige. I tried to identify the snake online and I found two type that can be matched but I can not be sure

Spotted Desert Racer (Platyceps karelini)
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Or
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Both exist in Qatar.
I'm not a snake expert and it would really help if I know which one that I have encountered.

[Andy_G]

There are many non-aggressive but quite venomous species of sea snakes in that area. It would be very hard to pinpoint what you saw without a picture of the actual individual that you saw. I would guess it to be one of the sea snakes, though.

[brandonh]

It would be weird though most sea snakes never come on shore so why would one climb into a boat?

[Andy_G]

Kraits are often found on the shoreline...but you're definitely right. It would be odd.

[brandonh]

and you are right about sea kraits i completely forgot about those But are they in that area i wonder?

[Iceyak]

Originally Posted by Iceyak

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Both exist in Qatar.
I'm not a snake expert and it would really help if I know which one that I have encountered.

The second link/attachment is for juvenile Hydrophis lapemoides

[Iceyak]

after seeing few pictures of the banded sea krait, I can say it is more close to the snake I have encountered. I think it was aggressive because it was after the bait on my line and it saw it coming to my kayak.

[trailblazer295]

I didn't know sea snakes could go on land. Thought they are water bound lacking the strength to move properly on land.