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Hydrophis laboutei RASMUSSEN & INEICH, 2000

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Higher TaxaElapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Laboute's Sea Snake 
SynonymHydrophis laboutei RASMUSSEN & INEICH 2000
Chitulia laboutei — KHARIN 2005
Chitulia laboutei — KHARIN & DOTSENKO 2012
Hydrophis laboutei — SANDERS et al. 2012 (by implication)
Chitulia laboutei — WALLACH et al. 2014: 165 
DistributionNew Caledonia, possibly Australia

Type locality: “Chesterfield Reefs, New Caledonia (20°21.98’S, 161°04.87’E), most likely caught at a depth of 62 meters.”  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 1999.6574, a 610 mm male (P. Laboute, 22 July, 1988); Paratype: (n=1) MNHN 1999.6575, an adult female from an unknown locality, but certainly from the New Caledonian area. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A species of Hydrophis with a gap of 8-16 ventrals between posterior tip of heart and anterior part of liver, 44-46 scale rows around body, 88-103 VS-heart, 186-187 vertebrae, and with first two or three black bands melting together with head dorsally.


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CommentVenomous!

Habitat: marine. 
EtymologyThe specific name is dedicated to the collector of the holotype, Pierre Laboute, a diver and submarine photographer at the French IRD research organization (Nouméa Station, New Caledonia). 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Cogger, H. G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp. - get paper here
  • Kharin, V.E. & Dotsenko I.B. 2012. The First Record of the Sea Snake Chitulia inornata Gray, 1849 from the Arabian Sea with Notes on the Composition of the Genus Chitulia Gray, 1849 (Serpentes: Hydrophiidae). [in Russian and English]. Russian Journal of Marine Biology 38 (1): 35–42 - get paper here
  • Kharin, Vladimir E. and Vladimir P. Czeblukov 2007. On First Reliable Record of the Sea Snake Chitulia belcheri (Gray, 1849) from Australian Waters, with Notes on Species Composition and Taxonomic Status of the Genus Chitulia (Serpentes, Hydrophiidae). Russian Journal of Marine Biology, 33 (3): 161–165. - get paper here
  • Rasmussen, A. R. & I. INEICH 2000. Sea snakes of New Caledonia and surrounding waters (Serpentes: Elapidae): first report on the occurence of Lapemis curtus and description of new species from the genus Hydrophis. Hamadryad 25 (2): 91-99 - get paper here
  • 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
  • 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.
 
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