Spine-bellied sea snake

Hardwicke's spine-bellied seasnake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Elapidae
Subfamily: Hydrophiinae
Genus: Hydrophis
Species: H. hardwickii
Binomial name
Hydrophis hardwickii
(Gray, 1834)
Synonyms
  • Lapemis hardwickii Gray, 1834
  • Hypsirhina hardwickii
    Hardwicke & Gray, 1835
  • Hydrophis hardwickii
    Günther, 1864
  • Enhydris hardwickii
    Boulenger, 1896
  • Lapemis hardwickii
    Stejneger, 1907
  • Hydrophis hardwickii
    — Sanders et al., 2012[1]

The spine-bellied sea snake (Hydrophis hardwickii ), also commonly known as Hardwicke's sea snake[2] and Hardwicke's spine-bellied sea snake, is a species of venomous elapid sea snake.

Etymology

The specific name, hardwickii, is in honor of English naturalist Thomas Hardwicke.[2]

Description

Geographic range

This species is located in warm waters:

hardwickii: Burma, southeast coast of India and the Straits of Malacca, east to Australia and north to China, Philippines, Taiwan, and Japan.[3]

References

  1. "Hydrophis hardwickii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. 1 2 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. (Lapemis hardwickii, p. 116).
  3. Leviton et al. 2003

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