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Hydrelaps darwiniensis BOULENGER, 1896

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Higher TaxaElapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Port Darwin seasnake 
SynonymHydrelaps darwiniensis BOULENGER 1896: 270
Hydrelaps darwiniensis — WALL 1909: 191
Hydrelaps darwiniensis — SMITH 1974: 107
Hydrelaps darwiniensis — COGGER 1983: 248
Hydrelaps darwiniensis — WELCH 1994: 67
Hydrelaps darwiniensis — COGGER 2000: 712
Hydrelaps darwiniensis — WILSON & SWAN 2010
Hydrelaps darwiniensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 338 
DistributionCoral Sea (S New Guinea, Australia)
Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)

Type locality: Port Darwin, N. T.  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesLectotype: BMNH 1946.1.1.91, designated by Kharin (2008). Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.1.91-92 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Distinguished from all other sea snakes by the absence of preocular. (Smith 1974)


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CommentVenomous!

Habitat: mostly marine, but semi-aquatic.

Type species: Hydrelaps darwiniensis BOULENGER 1896 is the type species of the genus Hydrelaps BOULENGER 1896. 
EtymologyNamed after the city Darwin, Australia. 
References
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  • Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis), xiv + 727 pp. - get paper here
  • Cogger, H. G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp. - get paper here
  • Cogger, H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp.
  • Crowe-Riddell JM, Snelling EP, Watson AP, Suh AK, Partridge JC, Sanders KL. 2016. The evolution of scale sensilla in the transition from land to sea in elapid snakes. Open Biol. 6: 160054 - get paper here
  • Kharin, Vladimir E. 2008. On the taxonomic status of a mangrove sea snake Hydrelaps darwiniensis Boulenger, 1896 (Serpentes, Hydrophidae). Russ. J. Herpetol. 15 (2):103-109 - get paper here
  • O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here
  • O’Shea,M. 1996. A Guide to the Snakes of Papua New Guinea. Independent Publishing, Port Moresby, xii + 239 pp. - get paper here
  • Porter, Robert; Irwin, Steve; Irwin, Terri;Rodrigues, Keith 1997. Records of marine snake species from the Hey-Embley and Mission Rivers, far North Queensland. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 27 (2): 2-7
  • RASMUSSEN, ARNE REDSTED; KATE LAURA SANDERS, MICHAEL L. GUINEA & ANDREW P. AMEY 2014. Sea snakes in Australian waters (Serpentes: subfamilies Hydrophiinae and Laticaudinae)—a review with an updated identification key. Zootaxa 3869 (4): 351–371 - get paper here
  • Shine, Richard; Claire Goiran, Catherine Shilton, Shai Meiri, Gregory P Brown 2019. The life aquatic: an association between habitat type and skin thickness in snakes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, blz136 - get paper here
  • Smith, L. A. 1974. The sea snakes of Western Australia (Serpentes: Elapidae: Hydrophiinae) with a description of a new subspecies. Rec. West. Aust. Mus. 3: 93-110 - get paper here
  • Smith, M. A. 1926. Monograph on the Sea Snakes. (Hydrophiidae). London: British Museum, xvii + 130 pp.
  • Wall, F. 1909. Monograph on the Sea Snakes. Mem. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 2 (8): 169-251 - get paper here
  • Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
  • Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
 
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