Hydrophis melanocephalus

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Slender-necked Seasnake
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Elapidae[1]
Genus: Hydrophis
Species: H. melanocephalus
Binomial name
Hydrophis melanocephalus
(Gray, 1849)

Slender-necked Seasnake Hydrophis melanocephalus is a species of sea snake.[1]

[edit] 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] References

  1. ^ a b Hydrophis (TSN 700227). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved on 7 September 2007.

[edit] Bibliography

  • 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


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