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Typical Sea Snakes
Hydrophis
Hydrophis is a genus of sea snakes, venomous snakes in the subfamily Hydrophiinae of the family Elapidae. Species in the genus Hydrophis are typically found in Indo-Australian and Southeast Asian waters. Currently, around 36 species are recognized as being valid.
47 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 47 known species
Yellow-bellied Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis platurus
Beaked Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis schistosus
Olive-headed Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis major
Elegant Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis elegans
Spine-bellied Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis curtus
Slender-necked Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis coggeri
Horned Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis peronii
Stokes' Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis stokesii
Persian Gulf Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis lapemoides
Ornate Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis ornatus
Annulated Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis cyanocinctus
Slender-necked Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis melanocephalus
Yellow Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis spiralis
Spotted Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis ocellatus
Small-headed Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis macdowelli
Spectacled Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis kingii
Striped Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis fasciatus
Dwarf Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis caerulescens
Australian Beaked Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis zweifeli
Black-headed Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis atriceps
Viperine Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis viperinus
rough-scaled sea snake
speciesHydrophis donaldi
Black-banded Robust Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis melanosoma
Brooke's Small-headed Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis brookii
Fine-spined Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis czeblukovi
Lake Taal Snake
speciesHydrophis semperi
Kloss's Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis klossi
Large-headed Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis pacificus
Bighead Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis annandalei
Kalimantan Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis sibauensis
Jerdon's Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis jerdonii
Russell's Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis obscurus
Lambert's Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis lamberti
Faint-banded Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis belcheri
Peters' Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis bituberculatus
Laboute's sea snake
speciesHydrophis laboutei
West Coast Black-headed Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis torquatus
Daudin's Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis nigrocinctus
Anomalous Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis anomalus
Collared Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis stricticollis
Smith's Small-headed Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis parviceps
Broad-headed Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis pachycercos
Hardwicke’s Spine-bellied Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis hardwickii
Rangoon Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis hendersoni
Bombay Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis mamillaris
Plain-banded Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis vorisi
Plain Sea Snake
speciesHydrophis inornatus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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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 35201.