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Gunther's Sea Snake
Microcephalophis cantoris
Hydrophis cantoris, also known commonly as Cantor's narrow-headed sea snake and Cantor's small-headed sea snake, is a species of venomous sea snake in the family Elapidae.
From the article Hydrophis cantoris on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
H.cantoris has the following diagnostic characters: Head small, body long and slender anteriorly; scales on thickest part of body juxtaposed; 5-6 maxillary teeth behind fangs; 23-25 (rarely 21) dorsal scale rows at neck, 41–48 at thickest part of body (increase from neck to midbody 18–24); ventrals divided by a longitudinal fissure; prefrontal in contact with third upper labial; ventrals 404–468. The maximum recorded total length (including tail) of males is 1,450 mm (57 in), and of females is 1,880 mm (74 in). The maximum tail length of males is 120 mm (4.7 in), and of females is 140 mm (5.5 in).
Range & habitat
Indian Ocean (Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Myanmar (= Burma), Thailand, Malaysia), Andaman Islands.
Wikipedia: “Geographic range”
In human culture
The specific name, cantoris, is in honor of Danish zoologist Theodore Edward Cantor.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1645633.