Hydrophis atriceps Günther, 1864

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 : 459-460

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12692650

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B38B5C-8449-FFFB-FFDC-FC1DFCFDFEEF

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scientific name

Hydrophis atriceps Günther, 1864
status

 

Hydrophis atriceps Günther, 1864 View in CoL

Southeast Asian Sea Snake; Blackheaded Banded Sea Snake

Hydrophis atriceps Günther, 1864:371 View in CoL , fig.— McCarthy, 1993c:230.— David and Ineich, 1999:104.— Rasmussen, 2001:4001, 1 fig.— Leviton, Brown, and Siler, 2014:503, figs. 19B, 23A, 24A.— Wallach, Williams, and Boundy, 2014:334.

Disteira cincinnatii Van Denburgh and Thompson, 1908:41 View in CoL , pl. (type locality: Manila Bay, off Cavite, Luzon Id.; holotype: CAS 15016 About CAS ).

Hydrophis fasciatus atriceps, Smith, 1926:97 View in CoL , fig. 27; 1943:465.

Hydrophis fasciatus, Alcala, 1986a:164 View in CoL .

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— Siam. Syntypes (2): BMNH 1946.1.2.62 (formerly BMNH 62.11.1.255 ), and BMNH 63.9.29.5 ; fide Smith [1926:98]; see also Wallach et al. [2014:334]).

PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION ( Map 16D [p. 127])— Luzon (Prov.: Cavite [Manila Bay]), Mindanao, Samar, Sulu Archipelago, Visayan Sea.

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION (OTHER THAN PHILIPPINES).— coastal waters off the east coast of Malaysia, Gulf of Thailand,Vietnam, southern China, Indonesia to western New Guinea, and northern Australia.

REMARKS.— This species is so similar in appearance to H. fasciatus that the two have been regarded as conspecific, though treated as distinct subspecies ( Smith [1926, 1943]), but recent studies have treated tham as distinct species (see McCarthy [1993:230, 234]; David and Ineich [1999:104, 109]; Wallach et al. [2014:462]). Alcala (1986:164) referred to records from the Visayan Sea and areas around Samar, Mindanao, and the Sulu islands to H. fasciatus but David and Ineich (1999:105) noted that “According to A. R. Rasmussen (pers. comm., June 1996), all references of Hydrophis fasciatus based on specimens taken East of Malacca Strait, from Gulf of Thailand to southern China and to the north coast of Australia, belong to Hydrophis atriceps ; we follow his interpretation.” We accept this interpretation as well.

CONSERVATION STATUS [IUCN].— Least Concern [2016] ver. 3.1.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Repitilia

Order

Squamata

SuperFamily

Colubroidea

Family

Elapidae

SubFamily

Hydrophiinae

Genus

Hydrophis

Loc

Hydrophis atriceps Günther, 1864

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

Hydrophis fasciatus, Alcala, 1986a:164

ALCALA, ANGEL 1986: 164
1986
Loc

Hydrophis fasciatus atriceps

SMITH, MALCOLM 1926: 97
1926
Loc

Hydrophis atriceps Günther, 1864:371

LEVITON, ALAN & M. BROWN & AND CAMERON & D. SILER 2014: 503
RASMUSSEN, ARNE 2001: 4001
MCCARTHY, COLIN 1993: 230
GUNTHER, ALBERT 1864: 371
1864
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