Microcephalophis gracilis

Slender Sea Snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Hydrophiidae
Genus:	Microcephalophis
Species:	M. gracilis
Binomial name
Microcephalophis gracilis (Shaw, 1802)

The Graceful Small-headed Sea Snake or Slender Sea Snake Microcephalophis gracilis is a species of sea snake.

Diagnostic Characters

Head small, body long and slender anteriorly; scales on thickest part of body juxtaposed; 5-6 maxillary teeth behind fangs; 17-21 scale rows around neck, 30-36 around thickest part of body (increase from neck to midbody 18-24); ventrals divided by a longitudinal fissure; prefrontal in contact with third upper labial; ventrals 220-287.

Total length males 950 mm, females 1025 mm; tail length males 80 mm, females 95 mm.

Distribution

• Indian Ocean (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Philippines)
• South China Sea northward to the coast of Fujian (China)
• Persian Gulf to Bay of Bengal (Oman, United Arab Emirates, Iran)
• Coast of Malaysia through Indoaustralian Archipelago to New Guinea, New Caledonia, Australia (Queensland), Melanesia, Indonesia

External links

• Microcephalophis gracilis on the Global Biodiversity Information Facility
• http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Microcephalophis_gracilis.jpg

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