Enhydrina

Enhydrina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Hydrophiidae
Genus: Enhydrina

Enhydrina, commonly known as the beaked sea snake, hook-nosed sea snake, common sea snake, is a genus of highly venomous sea snakes. Study of Enhydrina is important for the making of anti-venom. The only sea snake anti-venom available at this time is for snakes in Malaysia of the Species Enhydrina schistosa, often noted as E. schistosa.


References

Footnotes
  1. ↑ Valenta 2010, p. 153
  2. ↑ Ukuwela, K.D.B. et al. (online 2012): Molecular evidence that the deadliest sea snake Enhydrina schistosa (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae) consists of two convergent species. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.031
  3. ↑ fox News, Deadliest sea snake splits in two, By Douglas Main,, December 11, 2012
Bibliography
  • Heatwole, H. (1999). Sea Snakes. New South Wales: University of New South Wales Press.
  • Voris, Harold K. (1985). "Population size estimates for a marine snake (Enhydrina schistosa) in Malaysia." Copeia 1985 (4): 955–961
  • Valenta, Jiri (2010). Venomous Snakes: Envenoming, Therapy (2nd ed.). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers. ISBN 978-1-60876-618-5. 
  • Whitaker, Romulus Earl (1978). Common Indian Snakes: A Field Guide. Delhi: Macmillan. OCLC 4638773. 
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