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Species Hydrophis stokesii (Gray, 1846)

Stokes's Sea Snake

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Arafura Sea, Coral Sea, Timor Sea; New Guinea, SE Asia


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, continental shelf, estuary, inshore, nektonic, noctidiurnal, piscivore, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Perennially active, viviparous.

 

Notes

Non-Australian synonyms:

Hydrophis schizopholis Schmidt, P. (1846). Beschreibung zweier neuen Reptilien, aus dem naturhistorischen Museum zu Hamburg. Abh. Geb. Naturw. Hamburg 1: 164-172 [166, pl. 15 figs 1-7].
Type data: holotype ZMH 387 (see Smith, M.A. (1926). Monograph on the Sea Snakes. (Hydrophiidae). London : British Museum xvii 130 pp.).
Type locality: China Sea.

Hydrus annulatus Gray, J.E. (1849). Catalogue of the Specimens of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xv 125 pp. [59].
Type data: holotype BMNH 1946.1.19.74.
Type locality: Singapore.

Hydrophis guntheri Theobald, W. (1868). Catalogue of reptiles in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal; second sub-order, Serpentes Colubrini Venenati. Bull. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg. 37: 67-74 [69].
Type data: holotype whereabouts unknown (presumed lost, see Smith, M.A. (1926). Monograph on the Sea Snakes. (Hydrophiidae). London : British Museum xvii 130 pp.).
Type locality: mouth of Hooghly River, India (as probably from the Sandheads).

Hydrophis granosa Anderson, J. (1871). On some Indian reptiles. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1871: 149-211 [190].
Type data: holotype IM.
Type locality: mouth of Hooghly River, India (as Sand Heads).

Hydrophis guttata Murray, J.A. (1887). Description of three new species of Hydrophis from the Bombay harbour and the Mekran coast. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 2: 32-35 [33].
Type data: holotype BMNH 1946.1.19.73.
Type locality: Makran coast, Iran and Pakistan (as Mekran Coast).

Taxonomic decision for synonymy: Smith, M.A. (1926). Monograph on the Sea Snakes. (Hydrophiidae). London : British Museum xvii 130 pp.; Cogger, H.G. (1983). in Cogger, H.G., Cameron, E.E. & Cogger, H.M. Amphibia and Reptiles. In Walton, D.W. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 1. Netley, South Australia : Griffin Press Ltd vi 313 pp. [245].

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
04-Feb-2023 ELAPIDAE Boie, 1827 31-Oct-2023 MODIFIED
07-Feb-2024 ELAPIDAE 07-Oct-2014 MODIFIED
07-Feb-2024 22-Aug-2013 MODIFIED
08-Mar-2011 08-Mar-2011 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)