banded sea snake

The Shell Collectionを読んでいます。当然海の生物が沢山でてきます。今日はその内の一つを取り上げます。
A stone fish sting corroded the skin off the sole of the shell collector's owen heel, years ago, left the skin smooth and printless. How many urchin spikes, broken but still spurting venom, had he squeezed from Tumaini's paw? What would happen to these Jims if a banded sea snake came slipping up between their fat legs? If a lion fish was dropped down their collars?
映像で見た事があるだけですが、南洋の海にはウミヘビが出て来ます。たいていのウミヘビは縞模様がありますが、"banded sea snake" その様なウミヘビ指しているのでしょう。 "band" を辞書で見ると次のような説明があります。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A stripe or elongated area of a different color, texture, or composition than its surroundings: a long, narrow band of cloud
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: a strip (as of living tissue or rock) or a stripe (as on an animal) differentiable (as by color, texture, or structure) from the adjacent material or area
この辞書の "banded" の項には次の説明と例文がありました。
having or marked by narrow strips of different color: having or marked by bands: the red, black, and yellow banded king snake is sometimes mistaken for the venomous coral snake