Hydrophis fasciatus

Taxobox | name = Striped Sea Snake
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Elapidae
genus = "Hydrophis"
species = "H. fasciatus"
binomial = "Hydrophis fasciatus"
binomial_authority = (Schneider, 1799)

Striped Sea Snake "Hydrophis fasciatus" is a species of sea snake.ITIS|ID=700227|taxon="Hydrophis"|year=2007|date=7 September]

Anatomy

Head small, body long and slender anteriorly; scales on thickest part of body subquadrangular or hexagonal in shape, juxtaposed or slightly imbricate; 5-6 maxillary teeth behind fangs; 2 anterior temporals; body scales in 28-33 rows around the neck, 47-58 around midbody (increase in number of rows from neck to midbody 20-27); ventral scales 414-514 (average 460); anterior part of body including head and neck dark olive to black with pale oval yellowish spots on sides, sometimes connected as crossbars; posterior, grayish; below whitish; dark rhomboidal spots may extend down the sides of the body and form complete annuli in young. Total length males 1100 mm, females 990 mm; tail length males 100 mm, females 75 mm.

Distribution

Indian Ocean (coasts of Pakistan, India, Myanmar (= Burma), Thailand, Malaysia)Coasts of Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Borneo)Coasts of Australia, Philippines, New GuineaCoasts of Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan, Fujian (China)

References

Bibliography

* Bergman, R. A. M. 1962 The anatomy of "Hydrophis fasciatus atriceps". Biol. Jaarb. 30: 389-416