Rediscovery of the Yellow-bellied Sea Snake, Hydrophis platurus (Linnaeus, 1766) in Máncora, northern Perú

By

Quiñones, Javier
Burneo, Karla García
Barragan, Claudio

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2014-12-9

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

10

Series / Issue

Issue: 6

Pages

1563--1564

Subjects

Elapidae , Hydrophis platurus , Modoki El Niño , new record , Peru

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/10.6.1563

 

Abstract

The presence of the Yellow-bellied Sea Snake (Hydrophis platurus) in the Southeast Pacific is rarely reported, with only one confirmed observation from northern Perú made in the early 1950s. We present new information based on a live-stranded specimen recently found in Peruvian waters, having washed ashore at Máncora (04.1255° S, 81.0958° W) in northern Perú on 12 July 2012. This stranding was associated with a Modoki El Niño warm event, since positive sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies up to 2.5°C were registered at this time.