Hydrophis inornatus ( Gray, 1849 )

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 : 462-463

Hydrophis inornatus ( Gray, 1849)

REMARKS ( Map 17D [p. 128]).— According to David and Ineich (1999:111), Rasmussen (1989) referred records of Philippine and Indonesian H. inornatus to H. ornatus (see Rasmussen synonymy [1989:399], also comments on p. 410). Rasmussen also states, “However, the acceptance of H. inornatus as a separate species is explicitly preliminary and further study may show that the type specimen of H. inornatu s is an aberrant specimen of H. ornatus .” (Rasmussen [1989:415]). (See also Leviton, Brown, and Siler [2014:506]).

CONSERVATION STATUS [IUCN].— Data Deficient [2016] ver. 3.1.