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Hydrophis coggeri Latreille 1801

  • 1. Herpetology Division, Institute of Biodiversity Science & Sustainibility, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, California 94118 & Research Associate, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
  • 2. Department of Biology and Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, OK 73072 - 7029, USA & Zoology Division, National Museum of the Philippines, Rizal Park, Burgos Ave., Ermita 1000, Manila, Philippines.
  • 3. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045
  • 4. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 & Zoology Division, National Museum of the Philippines, Rizal Park, Burgos Ave., Ermita 1000, Manila, Philippines.

Description

Hydrophis [Leioselasma] coggeri Kharin, 1984

Cogger’s Sea Snake; Pacific Yellow-banded Sea Snake; Slender-necked Sea Snake

Leioselasma coggeri Kharin, 1984a:1538, fig. b.— David and Ineich, 1999:107.— Rasmussen, 2001:4002, figs.— Wallach, Williams, and Boundy, 2014:358.

Hydrophis coggeri, Leviton, Brown, and Siler, 2014:504.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— Port Suva, Fiji Ids. Holotype ZISP 19681.

PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION.— said to occur in the Philippines (Rasmussen [2001:4002] and distribution map; also Zug [2013:229]) but most likely H. melanocephalus (see Rasmussen et al. [2011:6]).

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION (OTHER THAN PHILIPPINES).— north coast of Australia, New Caledonia, east to Vanuatu and Fiji.

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

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 399-568 in Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Oxford, England) (Oxford, England) 64 (14) on page 461, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11512589

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZISP
Material sample ID
ZISP 19681
Scientific name authorship
Latreille
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Squamata
Family
Elapidae
Genus
Hydrophis
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Hydrophis Latreille, 1801 sec. Leviton, Siler, Weinell & Brown, 2018

References

  • RASMUSSEN, ARNE REDSTED. 2001. Sea Snakes. Pages 3987 - 4008 in K. E. Carpenter and V. H. Niem, eds., Boney Fishes, Part 4 (Labridae to Latimeridae), Estuarine Crocodiles, Sea Turtles, Sea Snakes and Marine Mammals. Vol. 6. FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), Rome, Italy.
  • LEVITON, ALAN E., RAFE M. BROWN, AND CAMERON D. SILER. 2014. The dangerously venomous snakes of the Philippine Archipelago. Pages 473 - 530 in G. C. Williams and T. M. Gosliner, eds., The Coral Triangle: The 2011 Hearst Biodiversity Philippine Expedition. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • ZUG, GEORGE R. 2013. Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands. University of California Press, Berkeley, California, USA. x + 306 pp, 30 text-figs., 35 pls.
  • RASMUSSEN, ARNE REDSTED, JOHAN ELMBERG, PETER GRAVLUND, AND IVAN INEICH. 2011. Sea snakes (Serpentes: subfamilies Hydrophiinae and Laticaudinae) in Vietnam: a comprehensive checklist and an updated identification key. Zootaxa 2894 (2894): 1 - 20, 2 figs.