Hydrophis annandalei ( Laidlaw, 1902 )

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 289

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scientific name	Hydrophis annandalei ( Laidlaw, 1902 )
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Treatment

Hydrophis annandalei ( Laidlaw, 1902) View in CoL — Erroneous.

Annandale’s Sea Snake

Singapore records.

Thalassophis annandalei —Sworder, 1923: 70.

Kolpophis annandalei —K.K.P. Lim & L.M. Chou, 1990: 55.—K.K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 1992: 148.— L.M. Chou et al., 1994: 105.— Iskandar & Colijn, 2001: 138.—K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 2002: 148.— Das, 2010: 323.—Rasmussen et al., 2011: 8.— Das, 2012a: 98.—Wallach et al., 2014: 353.—Chan-ard et al., 2015: 264.

Hydrophis annandalei View in CoL — Das, 2018: 110.

Hydrophis (Kolpophis) annandalei View in CoL — Leviton et al., 2018: 459.

Remarks. Sworder (1923) suspected the presence of H. annandalei in Singapore because it occurs in waters off of Peninsular Malaysia, but no records exist of this species from Singapore. Subsequent publications likely reference Sworder (1923).

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.

Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Reptilia
Order	Squamata
SubOrder	Serpentes
Family	Elapidae
Genus	Hydrophis