Laticauda guineai HEATWOLE, BUSACK & COGGER, 2005

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae (Laticaudinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Laticauda guineai HEATWOLE, BUSACK & COGGER 2005: 97 Laticauda guineai — WALLACH et al. 2014: 364
Distribution	Papua New Guinea Type locality: Bava Island, near Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: AMS (AM) R69514; Collected by: Fred Parker Collection Date: February 1 – March 22, 1977. Allotype: (n=1) Australian Museum R69515, Female, collected at Bava Island, near Port Moresby, Papua–New-Guinea by Fred Parker.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis. Laticauda guineai is most closely allied to Laticauda colubrina and is distinguished from that and all other species of the Laticauda colubrina complex by having a greater number (and narrower) dark and light bands around the body and tail; these dark bands attenuate to a lesser extent than for any other species in the complex except for Laticauda frontalis in which the dark bands often do not meet below. (Heatwole et al. 2005) Additional details (2693 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Venomous! Laticauda guineai is closely related to L. colubrina (Lee et al. 2016). Habitat: marine. Distribution: See maps in Gherghel et al. 2016, Heatwole et al. 2017.
Etymology	Named after Michael Leonard Guinea, in recognition of his contributions to sea snake biology, and its type locality.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Gherghel I, Papeş M, Brischoux F, Sahlean T, Strugariu A 2016. A revision of the distribution of sea kraits (Reptilia, Laticauda) with an updated occurrence dataset for ecological and conservation research. ZooKeys 569: 135-148, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.569.6975 - get paper here Heatwole, H.; Busack, S. & Cogger, H. 2005. Geographic variation in sea kraits of the Laticauda colubrina complex (Serpentes: Elapidae: Hydrophiinae: Laticaudini). Herpetological Monographs 19: 1-136 - get paper here Heatwole, Harold; Alana Grech, and Helene Marsh 2017. Paleoclimatology, Paleogeography, and the Evolution and Distribution of Sea Kraits (Serpentes; Elapidae; Laticauda). Herpetological Monographs 31 (1): 1-17. - get paper here Lane, Amanda; Richard Shine 2011. Phylogenetic relationships within laticaudine sea snakes (Elapidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59 (3): 567-577 - get paper here Lee, Michael S. Y.; Kate L. Sanders, Benedict King, Alessandro Palci 2016. Diversification rates and phenotypic evolution in venomous snakes (Elapidae). R. Soc. open sci., DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150277 - 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.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/587707696787166/ Google images

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