Hydrophis melanocephalus

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iSlender-necked Seasnake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Serpentes Family: Hydrophiidae Genus: Hydrophis Species: H. melanocephalus
Binomial name
Hydrophis melanocephalus (Gray, 1849)

Slender-necked Seasnake Hydrophis melanocephalus is a species of sea snake. Distribution: South Chinese Sea Japan (Ryūkyū, Hokkaidō, Kochi) Coasts of Taiwan and Guangdong northward to Zhejiang (China) Australia (North Territory?, West Australia), New Guinea

[edit] External links

• EMBL reptile database

[edit] References

• Kharin V E 1984 A review of sea snakes of the group Hydrophis sensu lato (Serpentes, Hydrophiidae). 3. The genus Leioselasma [in Russian]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 63 (10): 1535-1546