Hydrophis, Latreille, 1801
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Hydrophis View in CoL [ Chitulia ] belcheri ( Gray, 1849)
Belcher’s Sea Snake; Faint-banded Sea Snake
Aturia belcheri Gray, 1849:46 View in CoL . Hydrophis belcheri, Smith, 1926:52 View in CoL .— McCarthy, 1993c:230.— David and Ineich, 1999:105.—
Ferner, Brown, Sison, and Kennedy, 2001:54 [21].— Rasmussen et al., 2011:5.— Leviton,
Brown, and Siler, 2014:503. Chitulia belcheri, Wallach, Williams, and Boundy, 2014:163 .
TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— New Guinea. Holotype: BMNH 1946.1 .1.97 (formerly BMNH III.3.2.a; fide Smith [1926:53]).
PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION ( Map 17A [p. 128]).— Philippines, unknown, although Alcala (1986a:166) states that it “has been recorded from the central Philippine sea.”; see also comment by Ferner et al. (2001:54 [21]), who cite Alcala (1986). Otherwise, it has been reported from the coastal waters off of Vietnam in the South China Sea ( Rasmussen et al. [2011:5]).
GENERAL DISTRIBUTION (OTHER THAN PHILIPPINES).— Gulf of Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and New Guinea. (N.B.: David and Ineich [1999:105], citing earlier discussions by McDowell [1972:217] and McCarthy and Warrell [1991:162–163], refer the Australasian records to Hydrophis pacificus , but see also Kharin [2005:161], whose observations heighten the confusion regarding the identification of samples of populations supposedly belonging to H. belcheri . See also comments by Rasmussen [2001] relating to H. coggeri .)
CONSERVATION STATUS [IUCN].— Data Deficient [2016] ver. 3.1.
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