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Laticauda saintgironsi COGGER & HEATWOLE, 2006

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Higher TaxaElapidae (Laticaudinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymLaticauda saintgironsi COGGER & HEATWOLE 2006
Laticauda colubrina — SCHNEIDER 1799 (part.)
Platurus laticaudatus var. B. — GÜNTHER 1858 (part.)
Platurus colubrinus — BOULENGER 1896: 309 (part.)
Laticauda saintgironsi — HEATWOLE et al. 2005
Laticauda saintgironsi — LIVIGNI 2013: 310, 357
Laticauda saintgironsi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 365 
DistributionIndian Ocean: New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands; single specimens have been reported from New Zealand, and the Caroline Islands.

Type locality: Porc-épic Island, Le Lagon, near Noumea, New Caledonia.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 2013.1032 (formerly AMS R162999), adult male; paratypes: AMS (Australian Museum Sydney) 
Diagnosis 
CommentVenomous!

Synonymy after HEATWOLE et al 2005.

Laticauda saintgironsi consists of populations of L. colubrina s.l. found around the coast and in the coastal waters of the main island of New Caledonia.

Habitat: marine.

Distribution: Not in India fide I. Das (pers. comm., 22 Dec 2011). See maps in Gherghel et al. 2016, Heatwole et al. 2017. 
EtymologyNamed after the late Dr Hubert Saint Girons, whose many outstanding contributions to international herpetology ranged across disciplines and continents. In order for Future workers to clearly identify the patronym, the name saintgironsi is formed directly from the modern personal name as a noun in the genitive case. 
References
  • Bech, N., Foucart, T., Fauvel, T., Brischoux, F., Bouchon, D. and Bonnet, X. 2016. Phenotypic variation contrasts with genetic homogeneity across scattered sea snake colonies. J. Biogeogr., 43: 1573–1582. doi:10.1111/jbi.12735 - get paper here
  • Bech, N., Foucart, T., Fauvel, T., Brischoux, F., Bouchon, D. and Bonnet, X. 2016. Phenotypic variation contrasts with genetic homogeneity across scattered sea snake colonies. Journal of Biogeography, doi: 10.1111/jbi.12735 - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis), xiv + 727 pp. - get paper here
  • Cogger, Harold G. & Heatwole, Harold F. 2006. Laticauda frontalis (de Vis, 1905) and Laticauda saintgironsi n. sp. from Vanuatu and New Caledonia (Serpentes: Elapidae: Laticaudinae) - a new lineage of sea kraits? Rec. Austral. Mus. 58 (2): 245-256 - 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
  • Günther, A. 1858. Catalogue of Colubrine snakes of the British Museum. London, I - XVI, 1 - 281
  • 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
  • Ineich I 2009. Bocourt’s Terrific Skink, Phoboscincus bocourti Brocchi, 1876 (Squamata, Scincidae, Lygosominae), in GraNdCoLaS P. (ed.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 7. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 198: 149-174. Paris, ISBN: <br />978-2-85653-618-6.
  • Lane, A.M.; Oldroyd, B.P. & Shine, R. 2008. Microsatellite loci for laticaudine sea kraits. Molecular Ecology Resources 8: 1161–1163 - 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
  • Langner, C. 2015. Auf der Suche nach Neukaledonischen Riesengeckos. Reptilia (Münster) 20 (113): 34-44 - get paper here
  • LiVigni, F. (ed.) 2013. A Life for Reptiles and Amphibians, Volume 1. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 495 pp. - get paper here
  • Lutterschmidt, William I. 2013. REPTILES IN RESEARCH: INVESTIGATIONS OF ECOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND BEHAVIOR FROM DESERT TO SEA. Nova Science, New York, 527 pp. - get paper here
  • O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here
  • Schneider, J. G. 1799. Historiae Amphibiorum narturalis et literariae. Fasciculus primus, continens Ranas. Calamitas, Bufones, Salamandras et Hydros. Frommanni, Jena, 266 S. - get paper here
  • Ukuwela, K.D.B., de Silva, A., Sivaruban, A. et al. 2022. Diversity, distribution, and natural history of the marine snakes of Sri Lanka. Marine Biodiversity 52, 24 (2022) - 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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