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Hydrophis platurus Latreille 1801

Authors/Creators

  • 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 [Pelamis] platurus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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, figs. 27A, 27C, 30, 43–44.

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.

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 465, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11512589

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B38B5C8437FF84FFDCFC81FCFDFA62

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.11512622 (DOI)
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Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.11512589 (DOI)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03B38B5C8437FF84FFDCFC81FCFDFA62 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/235038031 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/299690/taxon/03B38B5C8437FF84FFDCFC81FCFDFA62.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

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

  • SMITH, MALCOLM A. 1926. Monograph of the Sea-Snakes (Hydrophiidae). Trustees of the British Museum, London, England, UK. xvii + (3) + 130 pp.
  • MCCARTHY, COLIN. 1993 e. Pelamis Gray, 1834. Pages 245 - 247 in P. Golay, H. M. Smith, D. G. Broadley, J. R. Dixon, C. McCarthy, J. - C. Rage, B. Schatti, and M. Toriba, eds., Endoglyphs and other Major Venomous Snakes of the World. Azemiops S. A., Aire-Geneva, Switzerland.
  • 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.
  • SANGUILA, M. B., K. A. COBB, C. D. SILER, A. C. DIESMOS, A. C. ALCALA, AND R. M. BROWN. 2016. The amphibians and reptiles of Mindanao Island, southern Philippines, II: the herpetofauna of northeast Mindanao and adjacent islands. Zookeys 624: 1 - 132, 81 figs., 2 tables. (doi: 10.3897 / zookeys. 634.9814)
  • WALLACH, VAN, KENNETH L. WILLIAMS, AND JEFF BOUNDY. 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA. xxvii + 1209 pp.
  • SANDERS, KATE L., MICHAEL S. Y. LEE, MUMPUNI, TERRY BERTOZZI, AND ARNE REDSTED RASMUSSEN. 2013. Multilocus phylogeny and recent rapid radiation of the viviparous sea snakes (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 575 - 591, 4 figs., 1 table, Appendices A and B.
  • PYRON, R. ALEXANDER, FRANK T. BURBRINK, AND JOHN J. WIENS. 2013. A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13 (93): 26 - 53.