Hydrophis [Pelamis] platurus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Linnaeus, 1758)

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 : 465

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12724719

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B38B5C-8437-FF84-FFDC-FC81FCFDFA62

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Hydrophis [Pelamis] platurus (Linnaeus, 1758)
status

 

Hydrophis [Pelamis] platurus (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Photo figure 98

Pelagic Sea Snake; Yellow-bellied Sea Snake

Anguis platura Linnaeus, 1766:391 .

Pelamis platurus, Smith, 1926:116 , fig. 33; 1943:476.— McCarthy, 1993e:245.— David and Ineich, 1999:174.— Whitaker and Captain, 2004:402, photo (p. 403).

Pelamis platura, Rasumssen et al., 2011:9 .— Wallach, Williams, and Boundy, 2014:529.

Hydrophis [Pelamis] platurus, Leviton, Brown, and Siler, 2014:509 View in CoL , figs. 27A, 27C, 30, 43–44 View FIGURE .

Hydrophis platyurus [sic], Sanguila, Cobb, Siler, Diesmos Alcala, and Brown, 2016:103.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— Not stated. Holotype not traced (see Wallach et al. [2014:529]).

PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION ( Map 18C [p. 129]).— Gigantes Ids., Luzon (but said to be widely distributed), Mindanao (Prov.: Zamboanga Sibugay [ Sibuguey Bay ]), Sulu Archipelago (Jolo, Sibutu), Surigao.

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION (OTHER THAN PHILIPPINES).— Most widely distributed of all sea snakes, from east coast of Africa throughout southern and eastern coastal Asia, as far north as southern Siberia, throughout Indonesia to Australia and Tasmania, also from Gulf of Panama north to Baja California in western North America and Hawaiian Islands. (See Wallach et al. [2014:529] for details.)

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].— Least Concern [2016] ver. 3.1.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Repitilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Elapidae

Loc

Hydrophis [Pelamis] platurus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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

Hydrophis platyurus

SANGUILA, M. B. & K. A. COBB & C. D. SILER & A. C. DIESMOS & A. C. ALCALA & R. M. BROWN 2016: 103
2016
Loc

Hydrophis [Pelamis] platurus, Leviton, Brown, and Siler, 2014:509

LEVITON, ALAN & M. BROWN & AND CAMERON & D. SILER 2014: 509
2014
Loc

Pelamis platurus

MCCARTHY, COLIN 1993: 245
SMITH, MALCOLM 1926: 116
1926
GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF