Laticauda colubrina
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Colubrine or yellow-lipped sea krait |
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Laticauda colubrina (Schneider, 1799) |
The Colubrine or yellow-lipped sea krait Laticauda colubrina is a species of sea snake. Diagnostic Characters- Ventrals large, one-third to more than half the width of the body; nostrils lateral; nasals separated by internasals; 21-25 longitudinal rows of imbricate scales at midbody; an azygous prefrontal shield usually present; rostral undivided; ventrals 213-243; subcaudals: males 37-47, females 29-35 (ventral and subcaudal counts after Smith 1943:443). Upper lip yellow. Total length: males 875 mm, females 1420 mm; tail length: males 130 mm, females 145 mm. Distribution: Indian Ocean (E India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar (= Burma), Malaysia, Indonesia [Borneo], Melanesia, Polynesia), Solomon Islands [McCoy 2000], Gulf of Thailand, Philippines (Luzon etc.), Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Coasts of Taiwan (China) Bay of Bengal coasts of Malay Peninsula Indoaustralian Archipelago to New Guinea Japan (Ryukyu Islands) Australia (New South Wales, Queensland), New Zealand Western Pacific Ocean to Fiji, New Caledonia, Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua
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- Frith,C.B. 1974 Second record of the seasnake Laticauda colubrina in Thailand waters. Nat. Hist. Bull. Siam Soc. (Bangkok) 25: 209
- Ota, Hidetoshi;Takahashi, Hiroshi;Kamezaki, Naoki 1985 On specimens of yellow lipped sea krait Laticauda colubrina from the Yaeyama group, Ryūkyū Archipelago Snake 17: 156-159
- Pernetta, J. C. 1977 Observations on the habits and morphology of the sea snake Laticauda colubrina (Schneider) in Fiji Canadian Journal of Zoology 55: 1612-1619
- Shetty, Sohan;Devi Prasad, K. V. 1996 Geographic variation in the number of bands in Laticauda colubrina Hamadryad 21: 44-45
- Shetty, S. & Shine, R. 2002 The mating system of Yellow-lipped sea kraits (Laticauda colubrina: Laticaudidae). Herpetologica 58 (2): 170-180
- Shetty, S. & Shine, R. 2002 Sexual divergence in diets and morphology in Fijian sea snakes Laticauda colubrina (Laticaudinae). Austral Ecology 27: 77-84
- Voris, Harold K.;Voris, Helen H. 1999 Commuting on the tropical tides: the life of the yellow-lipped sea krait Laticauda colubrina Reptilia (GB) (6): 23-30