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REPTILlA: SERPENTES: HYDROPHIIDAE ** LATICAUDA 



LATICAUDA Laurent i 



1768 La t icauda Laurenti, Synopsin Reptilium: IO9. Type-species; Lat icauda scutata Laurenti, which is 



synonymous with Laticauda laticaudata (Linnaeus). 

 1802 Platurus Latreille. in Sonnini and Latreille, Hist. Nat. Rept., 4: I83. Type-species: Pla turus 



f asc ia tus Latreille, which is synonymous with Lat icauda lat icaudata (Linnaeus). 

 1847 Platyurus Agassiz (substitute name for Platurus Latreille), Nomenclator Zoologici index 



Universalis: 257. 



Distribution: Bay of Bengal to southern Japan; north coast of Australia; Oceania; west coast of 

 Ni caragua. 



Content: Four species, according to last generic summary, by Smith, Monograph of the Sea Snakes 

 (Hydroph i i dae) , 1926. Only one occurs within limits of this work. 



LATICAUDA COLUBRINA (Schneider) 



1799 [ Hydrus J colubr i nus Schneider, Hist. Amphib.: 238. Type-locality: Unknown. 

 1905 Platurus frontal is DeVis, Ann. Queensland Mus., 6: 48. Type-locality: New Guinea, 

 1907 Laticauda colubr i na —Stejneger, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 58: 406. 

 1926 Laticauda colubrina — Sm I th, Monograph of the Sea Snakes: 6. 



Distribution; Bay of Bengal to southern Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Oceania; west coast of 

 N icaragua. 



Comment: This species Is reported from Nicaragua by Jaime Villa, "Las Serplentes Venenosas de 

 Nicaragua", I962, 29. 



