Emydocephalus ijimae STEJNEGER, 1898

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Turtlehead Sea Snake Chinese: 龟头海蛇
Synonym	Emydocephalus ijimae STEJNEGER 1898: 223 Aipysurus annulatus BOULENGER 1899: 21 (not of KREFFT) Emydocephalus ijimae — STEJNEGER 1907: 413 Emydocephalus ijimae — WALL 1909: 187 Emydocephalus ijimae — MAKI 1931 Emydocephalus ijimae — HUANG 1996 Emydocephalus ijimae — KHARIN 2005 Emydocephalus ijimae — WALLACH et al. 2014: 268
Distribution	SE Asian Sea (China, Taiwan, Japan, Ryukyu Island) Type locality: Loo Chao Island
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: USNM 36517
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2291 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Venomous! Habitat: marine.
Etymology	Named in honour of Prof. Isao Ijima, Science College, Imperial University, Tokyo. Synonymy partly after STEJNEGER 1907.
References	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. 1899. Reptilia and Batrachia. Zoological Record, 36:1-31 Huang W S 1996. Sexual size dimorphism of sea snakes in Taiwan. BULLETIN OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE (TAICHUNG) 7: 113-120 Kharin, V.E. 2008. Biota of the Russian Waters of the Sea of Japan Vol. 7 - Reptilians [in English and Russian]. Vladivostok, Dalnauka, 170 pp. Kharin, V.E. 2009. Redescription of a Russian Finding of the Erabu Sea Krait Pseudolaticauda semifasciata (Reinwardt in Schlegel, 1837), with Remarks about Species Composition of Sea Snakes (Serpentes: Laticaudidae, Hydrophiidae) in Russian and Adjacent Waters. Russian Journal of Marine Biology 35 (1): 8–14 - get paper here Maki, M. 1931. Monograph of the Snakes of Japan. Dai-ichi Shobo, Tokyo. (1), 7, 240 pages (expanded edition 1933) Masunaga, Gen;Ota, Hidetoshi 1994. Natural history of the sea snake, Emydocephalus ijimae in the central Ryukys. Japanese Journal of Herpetology 15 (4): 144 NANKIVELL, JAMES H.; CLAIRE GOIRAN, MATHEW HOURSTON, RICHARD SHINE, ARNE R. RASMUSSEN, VICKI A. THOMSON, KATE L. SANDERS 2020. A new species of turtle-headed sea Snake (Emydocephalus: Elapidae) endemic to Western Australia. Zootaxa 4758 (1): 141–156 - get paper here SASAI, TAKAHIDE; TAISHI OKAZAWA, MINORI HASEGAWA & KEI YAMAZAKI. 2022. The first record of sea anemone Stichodactyla gigantea consuming a sea snake Emydocephalus ijimae. The Herpetological Bulletin (161). - get paper here Stejneger, L. 1898. On a collection of batrachians and reptiles from Formosa and Adjacent Islands. J. Coll. Sci. Univ. Tokyo 12: 215-225 - get paper here Stejneger, L. 1910. The batrachians and reptiles of Formosa. Proc. US Natl. Mus. 38: 91-114 - get paper here Stejneger, LEONHARD H. 1907. Herpetology of Japan and adjacent territory. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 58: xx, 1-577 - get paper here 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. Wang, Kai; Jinlong Ren, Hongman Chen, Zhitong Lyu, Xianguang Guo Ke Jiang, Jinmin Chen, Jiatang Li, Peng Guo, Yingyong Wang, Jing Che 2020. The updated checklists of amphibians and reptiles of China. Biodiversity Science 28 (2): 189-218 - get paper here Zhao, E.M. 2006. The snakes of China [in Chinese]. Hefei, China, Anhui Sience & Technology Publ. House, Vol. I, 372 pp., Vol. II (color plates), 280 pp. Zhao,E. & Adler,K. 1993. Herpetology of China. SSAR, Oxford/Ohio, 1-522
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.snakesoftaiwan.com/Start_Page_EN.htm http://homepage3.nifty.com/japrep/snake/kobura/text/eiizimaumi.htm https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/430605935830677 Google images

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