On the occurrence of Persian Gulf Sea Snake, Hydrophis lapemoides (Gray, 1849) (Reptilia, Squamata, Elapidae, Hydrophiinae), along the coast of Bangladesh

By

Chowdhury, Mohammad Abdul Wahed
Islam, Md. Rafiqul
Auawal, Abdul
Hasan, Najmul
Uddin, Harij
Haidar, Ibrahim Khalil Al

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021-7-26

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

17

Series / Issue

Issue: 4

Pages

1075--1080

Subjects

Distribution , extent of occurrence , geographic range , Morphology , new country record

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/17.4.1075

 

Abstract

We provide the first evidence of the presence of the Persian Gulf Sea Snake, Hydrophis lapemoides (Gray, 1849), along the coast of Bangladesh. This species was assumed to exist in there, but neither specimens nor confirmed observations exist until now. We document here the first confirmed record of H. lapemoides based on a freshly collected and taxonomically verified specimen from coastal Bangladesh. The Bangladeshi specimen had the following diagnostic characters: 55 black bands, a dorsal scale composition of 35:51:43, 342 ventrals, one pre-ocular, two post-oculars, 2+3 temporals, 8 supralabials (II largest and contact prefrontals; III–IV contact orbit) and 8 infralabials (I–IV contact genials).