Hydrophis melanocephalus

Hydrophis melanocephalus

Taxobox | name = Slender-necked Seasnake
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Elapidae
genus = "Hydrophis"
species = "H. melanocephalus"
binomial = "Hydrophis melanocephalus"
binomial_authority = (Gray, 1849)

Slender-necked Seasnake "Hydrophis melanocephalus" is a species of sea snake.ITIS|ID=700227|taxon="Hydrophis"|year=2007|date=7 September]

Distribution

*South Chinese Sea
*Japan (Ryūkyū, Hokkaidō, Kochi)
*Coasts of Taiwan and Guangdong northward to Zhejiang (China)
*Australia (North Territory?, West Australia), New Guinea

References

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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