Kate Sanders

{{short description|Australian herpetologist}}

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Kate Laura Sanders is a researcher at the University of Adelaide, specialising in the study of sea snakes. She received a PhD from Bangor University in 2003 and was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2013-2017). Sanders has undertaken field work that has resulted in the identification of new species, including the sea snake Aipysurus mosaicus.

Sanders has examined and published on the aquatic snakes of seas off the Western Australian and Indonesian coasts. Recent work has included new discoveries on the evolution of sea snake vision,{{Cite web|url=https://scitechdaily.com/sea-snakes-have-been-modifying-genetically-to-see-underwater-for-15-million-years/|title=Sea Snakes Have Been Modifying Genetically to See Underwater for 15 Million Years|website=SciTech Daily|date=28 May 2020 |language=en|access-date=2020-06-09}} cutaneous respiration in the forehead of some sea snakes,{{Cite web|url=https://theconversation.com/deep-breath-this-sea-snake-gathers-oxygen-through-its-forehead-122784|title=Deep breath: this sea snake gathers oxygen through its forehead|website=The Conversation|date=3 September 2019 |language=en|access-date=2020-06-09}} the presence of light sensors in the tails of some sea snakes {{Cite web|url=https://www.earth.com/news/sea-snakes-sense-light-tails/|title=These sea snakes can sense light using their tails|website=Earth.com|language=en|access-date=2020-06-09}} and a description of the squamate clitoris{{Cite journal |last1=Folwell |first1=Megan |last2=Sanders |first2=Kate |last3=Crowe-Riddell |first3=Jenna |date=2022-06-06 |title=The Squamate Clitoris: A Review and Directions for Future Research |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icac056 |journal=Integrative and Comparative Biology |volume=62 |issue=3 |pages=559–568 |doi=10.1093/icb/icac056 |pmid=35662336 |issn=1540-7063}} (a hitherto under explored subject).

Sanders's work includes an appointment as co-chair of the IUCN/SSC Sea Snake Specialist Group.