Hydrophis [Leioselasma] melanocephalus Gray, 1849, 1801

Leviton, Alan E., Siler, Cameron D., Weinell, Jeffrey L. & Brown, Rafe M., 2018, Synopsis of the Snakes of the Philippines A Synthesis of Data from Biodiversity Repositories, Field Studies, and the Literature, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Oxford, England) 64 (14), pp. 399-568 : 464

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.11512589

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12724711

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B38B5C-8434-FF87-FFDC-FDCDFCFCFBD4

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scientific name

Hydrophis [Leioselasma] melanocephalus Gray, 1849
status

 

Hydrophis [Leioselasma] melanocephalus Gray, 1849 View in CoL

Black-headed Sea Snake; Slender-necked Sea Snake

Hydrophis sublaevis var. melanocephalus Gray, 1849:53 View in CoL .

Hydrophis melanocephalus, Smith, 1926:64 View in CoL .— McCarthy, 1993c:237.— David and Ineich, 1999:114.— Leviton, Brown, and Siler, 2014:508.

Leioselasma melanocephala, Wallach, Williams, and Boundy, 2014:359 .

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— Indian Ocean ? (questioned by Smith [1926:65]); “‘China Sea or even... the Ryukyus’ via lectotype selection” (Wallack et al. [2014:359]). Lectotype: BMNH 1946.1.9.22 (formerly BMNH 47.3.4.68 ; fide Smith [1926:65]).

PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION.— Philippines (fide Rasmussen [2011]; David and Ineich [1999]) but without locality details.

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION (OTHER THAN PHILIPPINES).— Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Japan (Ryukyu Ids.).

REMARKS.— We have tentatively assigned this species to Hydrophis consistent with the treatments of Hydrophis and related nominal genera by Sanders et al. (2013) and Pyron et al. (2013).

CONSERVATION STATUS [IUCN].— Data Deficient [2016] ver. 3.1.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Repitilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Elapidae

Loc

Hydrophis [Leioselasma] melanocephalus Gray, 1849

Leviton, Alan E., Siler, Cameron D., Weinell, Jeffrey L. & Brown, Rafe M. 2018
2018
Loc

Hydrophis melanocephalus

LEVITON, ALAN & M. BROWN & AND CAMERON & D. SILER 2014: 508
MCCARTHY, COLIN 1993: 237
SMITH, MALCOLM 1926: 64
1926
Loc

Hydrophis sublaevis var. melanocephalus

GRAY, JOHN 1849: 53
1849
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