Hydrophis laboutei RASMUSSEN & INEICH, 2000

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Higher Taxa	Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Laboute's Sea Snake
Synonym	Hydrophis 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 Hydrophis laboutei — EIPPER & EIPPER 2024: 262
Distribution	New 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.”
Reproduction	ovoviviparous
Types	Holotype: 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.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: 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. Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 538 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Venomous! Habitat: marine.
Etymology	The 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 Eipper T & Eipper S 2024. SNAKES OF AUSTRALIA. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 368 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.
External links	IUCN Red List https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/523676159856987/ Google images

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