Aipysurus
| Aipysurus | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Aipysurus laevis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Elapidae |
| Subfamily: | Hydrophiinae |
| Genus: | Aipysurus Lacépède, 1804 |
- Common names: (none).
Aipysurus is a genus of venomous sea snakes found in warm seas from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Nine species are recognized.[1]
Species
| Species[1][2] | Authority[1][2] | Subsp.*[1][2] | Common name | Geographic range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. apraefrontalis | M.A. Smith, 1926 | 0 | short-nosed sea snake | |
| A. duboisii | Bavay, 1869 | 0 | Dubois' seasnake | |
| A. eydouxii | (Gray, 1849) | 0 | spine-tailed seasnake | |
| A. foliosquama | M.A. Smith, 1926 | 0 | leaf-scaled sea snake | |
| A. fuscus | (Tschudi, 1837) | 0 | ||
| A. laevis | Lacépède, 1804 | 0 | olive sea snake | |
| A. mosaicus | Sanders et al., 2012 | 0 | ||
| A. pooleorum | L.A. Smith, 1974 | 0 | ||
| A. tenuis | Lönnberg & Andersson, 1913 | 0 | ||
*) Not including the nominate subspecies (typical race).
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Aipysurus.
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Aipysurus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 20 September 2007.
- 1 2 3 "Aipysurus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
- Boulenger, George Albert (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Genus Aipysurus, p. 303).
- Goin, Coleman J.; Goin, Olive B.; Zug, George R. (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company. xi + 378 pp. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4. (Aipysurus, p. 332).
- Lacèpėde, [Bernard Germain] (1804). "Mémoire sur plusieurs animaux de la Nouvelle-Hollande dont la description n'a pas encore été publiée ". Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 4: 184-211. (Aipysurus, new genus, p. 210). (in French).
External links
- Aipysurus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 September 2007.
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