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Annulated Sea Snake

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Elapidae[1]
Genus: Hydrophis
Species: H. Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Reptiles, or members of the class Reptilia are air-breathing Cold-blooded Vertebrates that have skin covered in scales as opposed to hair or feathers Squamata (scaled reptiles is the largest recent order of Reptiles including Lizards and Snakes Members of the order are distinguished by A snake is an elongate Reptile of the suborder Serpentes Like all reptiles snakes are covered in scales. The Elapidae, or elapids are a Family of venomous snakes found in tropical and subtropical regions around the world including the Indian Ocean and Hydrophis is a Genus of Sea snakes They are typically found in Indoaustralian and Southeast Asian waters cyanocinctus
Binomial name
Hydrophis cyanocinctus
Daudin, 1803

Annulated Sea Snake Hydrophis cyanocinctus (also called the blue-banded sea snake) is a species of sea snake. For sea snakes in mythology and cryptozoology see Sea serpent. [1]

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Description

Head moderate; eye shorter than its distance from the mouth in the adult. Rostral slightly more broad than deep; nasals shorter than the frontal, more than twice as long as the suture between the praefrontals; praefrontals usually in contact with the second upper labial; frontal more long than broad, as long as its distance from the rostral or the tip of the snout; one prae- and two postoculars; two superposed anterior temporals; seven or eight upper labials, third, fourth and usually fifth entering the eye or divided; both pairs of chin-shields in contact or posterior separated by one scale. Body long; scales sub-imbricate, keeled or with two or three tubercles, in 39-45 rows (27 33 anteriorly); ventrals 281-385, smooth or with two or more tubercles. Greenish-olive above, with blackish or olive transverse bars or annuli, broadest on the back, sometimes connected by a black band along the belly; or yellowish, with a black vertebral band and a few black bars on the neck. Length of head and body 1360 mm. ; tail 140 mm. [2]

Distribution

Found in the Indian Ocean (From the Persian Gulf, Iran, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines: Visayan Sea, Panay etc. ) and the marine waters around Korea, Japan, Solomon Islands, South China sea (incl. Hainan), East China Sea (incl. Taiwan), Coastal regions of Shandong and Liaoning (China) Coasts of Persian Gulf (Oman, United Arab Emirates), east through South Asia until New Guinea.

References

  1. ^ a b Hydrophis (TSN 700227). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Integrated Taxonomic Information System ( ITIS) is a partnership designed to provide consistent and reliable information on the Taxonomy of biological Species Retrieved on 7 September 2007. Events 1251 BC - A Solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes Greece. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
  2. ^ Rooij, Nelly de. 1915. The reptiles of the Indo-Australian archipelago. Leiden.

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