Table of Contents
97 relations: Albert Günther, Australia, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Binomial nomenclature, Black-banded sea snake, Black-headed sea snake, C. Boden Kloss, Carl Linnaeus, Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt, Edward Belcher, Elapidae, Estuarine sea snake, Family (biology), François Marie Daudin, François Péron, Genus, Geometrical sea snake, George Albert Boulenger, George Shaw (biologist), Harold Cogger, Hydrophiinae, Hydrophis annandalei, Hydrophis anomalus, Hydrophis belcheri, Hydrophis bituberculatus, Hydrophis brooki, Hydrophis caerulescens, Hydrophis cantoris, Hydrophis curtus, Hydrophis cyanocinctus, Hydrophis donaldi, Hydrophis elegans, Hydrophis fasciatus, Hydrophis inornatus, Hydrophis klossi, Hydrophis laboutei, Hydrophis lapemoides, Hydrophis mamillaris, Hydrophis melanocephalus, Hydrophis nigrocinctus, Hydrophis obscurus, Hydrophis ornatus, Hydrophis peronii, Hydrophis schistosus, Hydrophis semperi, Hydrophis sibauensis, Hydrophis spiralis, Hydrophis stricticollis, Hydrophis torquatus, Hydrophis viperinus, ... Expand index (47 more) »
Albert Günther
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3October 18301February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Bernard Germain de Lacépède
Bernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède or La Cépède (26 December 17566 October 1825) was a French naturalist and an active freemason.
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Binomial nomenclature
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.
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Black-banded sea snake
The black-banded sea snake (Hydrophis melanosoma) is a marine snake native to waters around Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra and Sulawesi.
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Black-headed sea snake
The black-headed sea snake (Hydrophis atriceps) is a marine snake native to waters around Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and northern Australia, and New Guinea.
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C. Boden Kloss
Cecil Boden Kloss (28 March 1877 – 19 August 1949) was an English zoologist.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
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Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt
Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt (1 February 1751 – 9 May 1812) was a French naturalist.
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Edward Belcher
Admiral Sir Edward Belcher (27 February 1799 – 18 March 1877) was a British naval officer, hydrographer, and explorer.
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Elapidae
Elapidae (commonly known as elapids; ἔλλοψ "sea-fish") is a family of snakes characterized by their permanently erect fangs at the front of the mouth.
Estuarine sea snake
The estuarine sea snake (Hydrophis vorisi), also known commonly as Kharin's sea snake, is a species of marine venomous snake in the family Elapidae.
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Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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François Marie Daudin
François Marie Daudin (29 August 1776 in Paris – 30 November 1803 in Paris) was a French zoologist.
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François Péron
François Auguste Péron (22 August 1775 – 14 December 1810) was a French naturalist and explorer.
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Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
Geometrical sea snake
Hydrophis czeblukovi, also known commonly as the fine-spined sea snake, the geometrical sea snake, and the geometrical seasnake, is species of venomous snake in the subfamily Hydrophiinae of the family Elapidae.
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George Albert Boulenger
George Albert Boulenger (19 October 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians.
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George Shaw (biologist)
George Kearsley Shaw (10 December 1751 – 22 July 1813) was an English botanist and zoologist.
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Harold Cogger
Harold George "Hal" Cogger (born 4 May 1935) is an Australian herpetologist.
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Hydrophiinae
Hydrophiinae is a subfamily of venomous snakes in the family Elapidae.
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Hydrophis annandalei
Hydrophis annandalei, commonly known as Annandale's sea snake or the bighead sea snake, is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Hydrophiinae of the family Elapidae.
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Hydrophis anomalus
The anomalous sea snake (Hydrophis anomalus) is a species of sea snake.
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Hydrophis belcheri
Hydrophis belcheri, commonly known as the faint-banded sea snake or Belcher's sea snake, is an extremely venomous species of elapid sea snake.
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Hydrophis bituberculatus
Hydrophis bituberculatus, commonly known as Peters's sea snake, is a species of venomous elapid.
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Hydrophis brooki
Hydrophis brookii is a species of venomous sea snake in the subfamily Hydrophiinae of the family Elapidae.
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Hydrophis caerulescens
Hydrophis caerulescens, commonly known as the dwarf sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.
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Hydrophis cantoris
Hydrophis cantoris, also known commonly as Cantor's narrow-headed sea snake and Cantor's small-headed sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.
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Hydrophis curtus
Hydrophis curtus, also known as Shaw's Sea Snake, short sea snake, but often includes Hydrophis hardwickiiGritis, P. & H. K. Voris 1990 Variability and significance of parietal and ventral scales in the marine snakes of the genus Lapemis (Serpentes: Hydrophiidae), with comments on the occurrence of spiny scales in the genus.
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Hydrophis cyanocinctus
Hydrophis cyanocinctus, commonly called the annulated sea snake or the blue-banded sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.
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Hydrophis donaldi
Hydrophis donaldi, or the rough-scaled sea snake is a unique species of sea snake from Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria first described in 2012.
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Hydrophis elegans
The elegant sea snake (Hydrophis elegans) is a highly venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.
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Hydrophis fasciatus
Hydrophis fasciatus, commonly known as the striped sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae (Hydrophiinae).
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Hydrophis inornatus
Hydrophis inornatus, commonly known as the plain sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.
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Hydrophis klossi
Hydrophis klossi, commonly known as Kloss's sea snake, is a species of sea snake in the family Elapidae.
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Hydrophis laboutei
Hydrophis laboutei, also known as Laboute's sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae that is native to New Caledonia.
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Hydrophis lapemoides
Hydrophis lapemoides is a species of snake in the family Elapidae known commonly as the Persian Gulf sea snake.
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Hydrophis mamillaris
Hydrophis mamillaris, sometimes referred to as the Bombay sea snake or broad-banded sea snake is a species of venomous sea snake native to the Indian Ocean.
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Hydrophis melanocephalus
Hydrophis melanocephalus, commonly known as the slender-necked sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.
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Hydrophis nigrocinctus
Hydrophis nigrocinctus, or the black-banded sea snake, is a species of marine venomous snakes in the family Elapidae (Hydrophiinae-sea snake).
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Hydrophis obscurus
Hydrophis obscurus, commonly known as Russell's sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.
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Hydrophis ornatus
Hydrophis ornatus, commonly known as the ornate reef sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.
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Hydrophis peronii
Hydrophis peronii, commonly known as the horned sea snake, Peron's sea snake, and the spiny-headed seasnake, is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Hydrophiinae of the family Elapidae.
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Hydrophis schistosus
Hydrophis schistosus, commonly known as the beaked sea snake, hook-nosed sea snake, common sea snake, or the Valakadeyan sea snake, is a highly venomous species of sea snake common throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific.
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Hydrophis semperi
Hydrophis semperi, commonly known as the Lake Taal snake, Garman's sea snake, the Philippine freshwater sea snake, and the Luzon sea snake, is a rare species of venomous sea snake found only in a single lake on the island of Luzon in the Philippines.
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Hydrophis sibauensis
Hydrophis sibauensis, also known as the Kalimantan sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae that is native to Indonesia, and endemic to Borneo.
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Hydrophis spiralis
Hydrophis spiralis, commonly known as the yellow sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.
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Hydrophis stricticollis
Hydrophis stricticollis, commonly called the collared sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.
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Hydrophis torquatus
Hydrophis torquatus, also known as the west coast black-headed sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae that is native to Southeast Asia.
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Hydrophis viperinus
Hydrophis viperinus, commonly known as the viperine sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae (Hydrophiinae).
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Hydrophis zweifeli
Hydrophis zweifeli is a species of snakes found from New Guinea to Australia (Northern Territory and Queensland).
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Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.
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James Brooke
Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (29 April 1803 – 11 June 1868), was a British soldier and adventurer who founded the Raj of Sarawak in Borneo.
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Jerdon's sea snake
Jerdon's sea snake (Hydrophis jerdonii) is a species of venomous sea snake in the subfamily Hydrophiinae of the family Elapidae.
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Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider
Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (18 January 1750 – 12 January 1822) was a German classicist and naturalist.
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John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist.
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John Lort Stokes
Admiral John Lort Stokes (1 August 1811 – 11 June 1885) was a Royal Navy officer who served onboard for almost eighteen years.
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Kalimantan
Kalimantan is the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo.
Lambert's sea snake
Lambert's sea snake (Hydrophis lamberti) is a marine snake native to waters around Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines.
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Large-headed sea snake
The large-headed sea snake (Hydrophis pacificus) is sea snake in the family Elapidae native to waters off northern Australia.
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Malcolm Arthur Smith
Malcolm Arthur Smith (1875 in New Malden, Surrey – 1958 in Ascot) was a herpetologist and physician working in the Malay Peninsula.
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Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Nelson Annandale
Thomas Nelson Annandale CIE FRSE (15 June 1876, in Edinburgh – 10 April 1924, in Calcutta) was a British zoologist, entomologist, anthropologist, and herpetologist.
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New Caledonia
New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie) is a ''sui generis'' collectivity of overseas France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about east of Australia, and from Metropolitan France.
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Northern Australia
The unofficial geographic term Northern Australia includes those parts of Queensland and Western Australia north of latitude 26° and all of the Northern Territory.
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Nota bene
Nota bene (or; plural: notate bene) is the Latin phrase meaning note well.
Olive-headed sea snake
The olive-headed sea snake (Hydrophis major), also known as the greater sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
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Patrick Russell (herpetologist)
Patrick Russell (6 February 1726, Edinburgh – 2 July 1805, London) was a Scottish surgeon and naturalist who worked in India.
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Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf (Fars), sometimes called the (Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in West Asia.
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Phillip Parker King
Rear Admiral Phillip Parker King, FRS, RN (13 December 1791 – 26 February 1856) was an early explorer of the Australian and Patagonian coasts.
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Pierre André Latreille
Pierre André Latreille (29 November 1762 – 6 February 1833) was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods.
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Queensland
Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.
Samuel Garman
Samuel Walton Garman (June 5, 1843 – September 30, 1927), or "Garmann" as he sometimes styled himself, was an American naturalist and zoologist.
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Sea snake
Sea snakes, or coral reef snakes, are elapid snakes that inhabit marine environments for most or all of their lives.
Slender-necked sea snake
The slender-necked sea snake (Hydrophis coggeri), also known commonly as Cogger's sea snake, is a species of marine venomous snake in the subfamily Hydrophiinae of the family Elapidae.
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Small-headed sea snake
The small-headed sea snake (Hydrophis macdowelli) is sea snake in the family Elapidae native to waters off northern Australia.
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Smith's small-headed sea snake
Smith's small-headed sea snake (Hydrophis parviceps) is a marine snake native to waters around the mouth of the Mekong River in Vietnam.
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Snakebite
A snakebite is an injury caused by the bite of a snake, especially a venomous snake.
Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Spectacled sea snake
The spectacled sea snake or King's sea snake (Hydrophis kingii) is sea snake in the family Elapidae.
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Spine-bellied sea snake
The spine-bellied sea snake (Hydrophis hardwickii), also commonly known as Hardwicke's sea snake and Hardwicke's spine-bellied sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.
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Spotted sea snake
The spotted sea snake (Hydrophis ocellatus) is a species of marine snake native to the waters off northern Australia.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.
Stokes's sea snake
Stokes's sea snake (Hydrophis stokesii) is a large species of sea snake in the family Elapidae.
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Subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.
Subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.
Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
Theodore Cantor
Theodore Edward (Theodor Edvard) Cantor (1809–1860) was a Danish physician, zoologist and botanist.
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Thomas C. Jerdon
Thomas Caverhill Jerdon (12 October 1811 – 12 June 1872) was an English physician, zoologist and botanist.
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Thomas Hardwicke
Major-General Thomas Hardwicke (1756 – 3 March 1835) was an English soldier and naturalist who was in India from 1777 to 1823.
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Torres Strait
The Torres Strait, also known as Zenadh Kes (ˈzen̪ad̪ kes), is a strait between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea.
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Venomous snake
Venomous snakes are species of the suborder Serpentes that are capable of producing venom, which they use for killing prey, for defense, and to assist with digestion of their prey.
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Vladimir Kharin (zoologist)
Vladimir Yemelyanovich Kharin (1957–2013) was a Russian zoologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and a specialist in sea snakes.
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Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.
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Wilhelm Peters
Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 – 20 April 1883) was a German naturalist and explorer.
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Yellow-bellied sea snake
The yellow-bellied sea snake (Hydrophis platurus) is a venomous species of snake from the subfamily Hydrophiinae (the sea snakes) found in tropical oceanic waters around the world except for the Atlantic Ocean.
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References
Also known as Disteira, Enhydrina, Lapemis.