Hydrophis, Latreille, 1801
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.11512589 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B38B5C-8435-FF86-FFDC-FBC9FCFCF992 |
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Felipe |
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Hydrophis |
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Hydrophis View in CoL [ Mediohydrophis ] klossi Boulenger, 1912
Kloss’s Sea Snake
Hydrophis klossi Boulenger, 1912:190 View in CoL .— Smith, 1926:68, fig. 21.— Stuebing and Inger, 1999:210.— David and Ineich, 1999:112.— Leviton, Brown, and Siler, 2014:507.
Mediohydrophis klossi, Wallach, Williams, and Boundy, 2014:422 .
TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— Selangor, Malaysia Peninsula. Holotype: BMNH 1946.1 .10.8 (formerly BMNH 1920.6.3.7; fide Smith [1926:69]).
PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION.— Philippines (not yet reported from Philippine waters; Stuebing and Inger [1999:210] report one specimen off the coast of northern Borneo ) .
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION (OTHER THAN PHILIPPINES).— east coast of Malay Peninsula, Thailand, Singapore, western Indonesia (Sumatra).
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].— Data Deficient [2016] ver. 3.1.
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