Hydrophis brooki

Hydrophis brookii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Elapidae
Subfamily:	Hydrophiinae
Genus:	Hydrophis
Species:	H. brookii
Binomial name
Hydrophis brookii Günther, 1872

Hydrophis brookii is a species of venomous sea snake.^[1][2]

Etymology

The specific name, brookii, is in honor of British adventurer James Brooke.^[3]

Geographic range

H. brookii is found in the Indian Ocean (Malaysia, Vietnam, western Indonesia: Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan) and the Gulf of Thailand.^[1]

References

1. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org
2. Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de.
3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Hydrophis brookii, p. 39).

Further reading

• Boulenger GA. 1896. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ), ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Hydrophis brookii, pp. 282–283).
• Günther A. 1872. On the Reptiles and Amphibians of Borneo. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1872: 586-600 + Plates XXXV-XL. (Hydrophis brookii, new species, p. 597, Figure 5).
• Kharin VE. 1983. [ A new species of the genus Hydrophis sensu lato (Serpentes, Hydrophiidae) from the North Australian Shelf ]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 62 (11): 1751-1753. (in Russian).
• Kharin VE. 2004. [ A review of sea snakes of the genus Hydrophis sensu stricto (Serpentes, Hydrophiidae) ]. Biologiya Morya (Vladivostok) 30 (6): 447-454. (in Russian).