Laticauda Laurenti

Rasmussen, Arne Redsted, Elmberg, Johan, Gravlund, Peter & Ineich, Ivan, 2011, Sea snakes (Serpentes: subfamilies Hydrophiinae and Laticaudinae) in Vietnam: a comprehensive checklist and an updated identification key, Zootaxa 2894, pp. 1-20 : 9

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.277666

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6195318

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Laticauda Laurenti
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Laticauda Laurenti

Laticauda colubrina (Schneider) : ( McCarthy, 1986; Heatwole et al., 2005; Kharin, 2006).

Diagnostic characters: Head shields large, nasals separated by internasals, upper lips yellow. Scale rows around neck 21–23; scale rows around body 21–25; ventrals 213–245. Colouration: Body bluish-grey above, yellow or whitish below, with black bands of more or less uniform width throughout. Head black except snout, upper lips and a stripe extending back above the eye to the temporal region, which are all yellow. Size: 142 cm. General distribution: Indo-Malayan Archipelago, South China Sea, Philippines, Indonesia, Australian region east to Fiji and Vanuatu ( David & Ineich, 1999; Heatwole et al., 2005; Cogger & Heatwole, 2006).

Laticauda laticaudata (Linnaeus) : not yet found in Vietnamese waters.

Diagnostic characters Head shields large, nasals separated by internasals, upper lips dark. Scale rows around neck 19; scale rows around body 19; ventrals 225–243. Colouration: Body bluish-grey above, yellow or whitish below, with black bands. Head with a pale horseshoe-shaped mark above, which may or may not curve down behind eye. Size: 110 cm. General distribution: Andaman Sea, Indo-Malayan Archipelago, Gulf of Thailand, South China Sea, Philippines, Indonesia and Australian region ( Smith, 1926; McCarthy, 1986; Zhao & Adler, 1993; David & Ineich, 1999; Heatwole et al., 2005).

Laticauda semifasciata (Reinwardt in Schlegel): not yet found in Vietnamese waters ( Kharin, 2009).

Diagnostic characters Head shields large, nasals separated by internasals, upper lips dark. Scale rows around neck 21–23; scale rows around body 21–23; ventrals 195–210. Colouration: Body bluish-grey green above, yellowish below, with black bands. Head dark brown with a yellow curved mark above, connecting posteriorly with yellow band at back of head. With age, become brownish and markings less apparent ( Smith, 1926). Size: 135 cm. General distribution: Philippines, China, Taiwan, Japan and Russia ( Smith, 1926; Zhao & Adler, 1993; David & Ineich, 1999; Kharin, 2009).

Cogger, H. G. & Heatwole, H. (2006) Laticauda frontalis (de Vis, 1905) and Laticauda saintgironsi n. sp. from Vanuatu and New Caledonia (Serpentes: Elapidae: Laticaudinae) - A new lineage of sea kraits? Records of the Australian Museum, 58, 245 - 256.

David, P. & Ineich, I. (1999) Les Serpents venimeux du monde: systematique et repartition. Dumerilia (Paris), 3, 3 - 499.

Heatwole, H., Busack, S. & Cogger, H. G. (2005) Geographic variation in sea kraits of the Laticauda colubrina complex (Serpentes: Elapidae: Hydrophiinae: Laticaudini). Herpetological Monographs, 19, 1 - 136.

Kharin, V. E. (2006) An annotated checklist of sea snakes of Vietnam, with notes on a new record of the yellow-lipped sea krait, Laticauda colubrina (Schneider, 1799) (Laticaudidae, Hydrophiidae). Russian Journal of Marine Biology, 32, 223 - 228.

Kharin, V. E. (2009) Redescription of a Russian finding of the Erabu Sea Krait Pseudolaticauda semifasciata (Reinwardt in Schlegel, 1837), with remarks about species composition of sea snakes (Serpentes: Laticaudidae, Hydrophiidae) in Russian and adjacent waters. Russian Journal of Marine Biology, 35, 8 - 14.

McCarthy, C. J. (1986) Relationships of the laticaudine sea snakes (Serpentes: Elapidae: Laticaudinae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology), 50, 127 - 161.

Smith, M. A. (1926) Monograph of the sea-snakes (Hydrophiidae). Printed by order of the Trustees of the British museum (Natural History) London, Pages i-xvii + 1 - 130 + 2 plates.

Zhao, E. & Adler, K. (1993) Herpetology of China. Society for the study of Amphibians and Reptiles. Oxford, Ohio, pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Elapidae

SubFamily

Hydrophiinae