Disteira nigrocincta

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Disteira nigrocincta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Hydrophiidae
Genus: Disteira
Species: D. nigrocincta
Binomial name
Disteira nigrocincta
(Daudin, 1803)

Disteira nigrocincta is a species of sea snake. Distribution: Indian Ocean: India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar (= Burma), Thailand, Malaysia Type locality: Sundarbans, Bengal


[edit] References

  • Heatwole, H. 1999 Sea snakes, 2nd ed. Krieger, Malabar, 148 pp.
  • Rasmussen,A.R. 1997 Systematics of sea snakes: a critical review. In: Thorpe,R.S., Wüster,W. & Malhotra,A. (eds.) Venomous snakes - ecology, evolution and snakebite. Clarendon Press (Oxford)/Symp. zool. Soc. Lond. 70: 15-30


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