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 PEL AMIS 



PELAMIS Daudin 



I8O3 Pelam i s Daudin, Hist. Nat. Rept., 1: 357* Type-species: Anqu i s platura Linnaeus. 



1816 Pelamys Oken (emendation of Pelam is Daudin), Okens Lehrbuch der Naturgesch ichte, 3 (2): 275. 



1817 Ophi nectes Rafinesque, Amer. Month. Mag. Crit. Rev., 1: ^"^2. Type-species: None designated. 

 1848 Elaphrodytes Gistl (substitute name for Hydrus Daudin), Naturgesch i chte des Tierreichs: ix. 

 1910 Pelamydrus Stejneger, Proc. U.i Nat. Mus., 38= 111» Type-species: Anqu is platura Linnaeus. 



Distribution: As for single known species. 



Content: One species. 



PELAMIS PLATURUS (Linnaeus) 



1766 Anqu is platura Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, Ed. 12: 391' Type-locality: None given. 



1799 

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Hydrus J b icolor Schneider, Hist. Amphib. Nat., 1: 242. Type-locality: None given, 

 ^ Pelam i s j platuros — Daudin (in error for platurus ) . Hist. Nat. Rept., "]: 36I. 

 I8I7 Pelam i s schne i der i Rafinesque (substitute name for Pelam i s b icolor var. Daudin), Amer. 



Mag. Crit. Rev., 1: 432. 

 1842 Pelamis ornata Gray. Zool. Misc., 1842: 60. Type-locality: "India". 

 I854 Pelam i s var i eqata Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril, Erp. Gen., 7: 1337* Type-locality: Macassar, 



Celebes. 

 I854 [ Pelamis bicolor j var. S i nua ta Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril, Erp. Gen., 7= 1338. Type-locality; 



Unknown. 

 I856 [ Hydroph i s ( Pelam i s ) b icolor j var. al ternatus Fischer (substitute name for Pelam i s var ieoa ta 



Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril), Abh. Naturwiss. Ver. Hamburg, 3' 63. 

 I872 Hydroph i s b icolor var. maculata Jan, Icon. Gen. Ophid., Livr. 40; pi. 3> fig. 3' Type-locality: 



"Mer des Indes" (Indian Ocean?); coast of China. 



Distribution: I ndo-Austral i an seas from Siberia to Tasmania; Pacific Ocean; west coast of Americas 

 from Mexico to Ecuador; one unverified report on Gulf Coast of Central America. 



