As part of this unusual diet, this species has lost its fangs, and the venom glands are almost entirely atrophied.

The specific name, eydouxii, commemorates French naturalist Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux.

[4] A. eydouxii is found in Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, the South China Sea, the Gulf of Thailand, Indonesia, Peninsular Malaysia, Vietnam, and New Guinea.

[5] These include strong throat musculature, consolidation of lip scales, reduction and loss of teeth, greatly reduced body size, and (due to a dinucleotide deletion in the 3FTx gene) much reduced toxicity of the venom.

[5] Only one other species of sea snake, Emydocephalus annulatus, shares the eggs-only diet of A.