Hydrophis semperi GARMAN, 1881

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Lake Taal Snake G: Sempersche Ruderschlange, Taal-Seeschlange
Synonym	Hydrophis semperi GARMAN 1881: 86 Distira semperi — BOULENGER 1896 Leioselasma semperi — KHARIN 1984 Leioselasma semperi — WELCH 1994: 72 Leioselasma semperi — KHARIN 2005 Hydrophis semperi — SANDERS et al.. 2012 (by implication) Leioselasma semperi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 368
Distribution	Philippines (Luzon: Lake Taal) Type locality: Lake Taal, Luzon Island
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: MCZ R-4352
Diagnosis
Comment	Venomous! Habitat: freshwater; this is one of a few “sea snakes” that appear to live exclusively in fresh water. Another one is H. sibauensis.
Etymology	Named after Dr. Carl Gottfried Semper (1832-1893), an anatomist, ethnologist, and zoologist.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Garcia, V.O.S., Papa, R.D.S. & Diesmos, A.C. 2017. Hydrophis semperi (Lake Taal Sea Snake) Behavior. Herpetological Review 48 (3): 673-674. - get paper here GARCIA, Vhon Oliver S.; Rey Donne S.PAPA; Jonathan Carlo A.BRIONES; Norman MENDOZA; Noboru OKUDA; Arvin C.DIESMOS 2014. Food Habits and Distribution of the Lake Taal Sea Snake (Hydrophis semperi Garman 1881) and the Sympatric Little File Snake (Acrochordus granulatus Schneider 1799) in Lake Taal, Philippines. Asian Herpetological Research 5 (4): 255-262 doi 10.3724/SP.J.1245.2014.00255 - get paper here Garman,S. 1881. New and little-known reptiles and fishes in the Museum collections. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 8: 85-93 - get paper here Herre, Albert W. C. T. 1942. Notes on Philippine sea-snakes. Copeia 1942 (1): 7-9 - get paper here Kharin V E 1984. A review of sea snakes of the group Hydrophis sensu lato (Serpentes, Hydrophiidae). 3. The genus Leioselasma [in Russian]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 63 (10): 1535-1546 Kharin, V.E. 2005. On new findings of a rare sea snake Leioselasma czeblukovi Kharin, 1984, with remarks on species composition and taxonomical position of the genus Leioselasma Lacepede, 1804, (Serpentes: Hydrophiidae). Russian Journal of Marine Biology 31 (5): 269-272. - get paper here Leviton, A.E., R.M. Brown, and C.D. Siler. 2014. The dangerously venomous snakes of the Philippine Archipelago. in The Coral Triangle: The 2011 Hearst Biodiversity Philippine Expedition (G.C. Williams and T.M. Gosliner, eds.). California Academy of Sciences, USA, Pp 473–530 Leviton, Alan E.; Cameron D. Siler, Jeffrey L. Weinell, and Rafe M. Brown 2018. Synopsis of the Snakes of the Philippines. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 64 (14): 399-568 - 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. Weinell, Jeffrey L.; Errol Hooper, Alan E. Leviton, Rafe M. Brown 2019. Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (4) 66 (1): 1-49 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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