Aipysurus
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AipysurusTemplate:Refn is a genus of venomous snakes in the subfamily Hydrophiinae of the family Elapidae. Member species of the genus are found in warm seas from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
Taxonomy
The first description of the genus Aipysurus was published by Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1804, accommodating his description of a new species found in Australian seas, Aipysurus laevis, the type species of the genus. The description was accompanied by an illustration of the new species.[1] The genus is one of a small group of the viviparous sea snakes (Hydrophiinae: Hydrophiini) with Emydocephalus, also mostly restricted to the seas between Timor, New Guinea and northern Australia.[2]
The following species are recognised in the genus Aipysurus:[3]
| Image | Species | Authority | Common name | Geographic range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aipysurus apraefrontalis | M.A. Smith, 1926Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Short-nosed sea snake | Western Australia | |
| Aipysurus duboisii | Bavay, 1869Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Reef shallows sea snake; Dubois' sea snake | coastal areas of Australia | |
| File:Aipysurus eydouxii.jpg | Aipysurus eydouxii | (Gray, 1849)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Spine-tailed sea snake; Marbled sea snake; Beaded sea snake | Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, the South China Sea, the Gulf of Thailand, Indonesia, Peninsular Malaysia, Vietnam and New Guinea |
| Aipysurus foliosquama | M.A. Smith, 1926Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Leaf-scaled sea snake | Ashmore and Cartier Islands | |
| Aipysurus fuscus | (Tschudi, 1837)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Dusky sea snake | Timor Sea between Australia, Indonesia and East Timor | |
| File:Aipysurus laevis.jpg | Aipysurus laevis | Lacépède, 1804Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Olive-brown sea snake; Olive sea snake | Great Barrier Reef |
| Aipysurus mosaicus | Sanders et al., 2012Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[2] | Mosaic sea snake | Northern Australia and New Guinea | |
| File:Aipysurus pooleorum.jpg | Aipysurus pooleorum | Smith, 1974Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Shark Bay sea snake | Western Australia, midwest coast (Shark Bay) |
| Aipysurus tenuis | Lönnberg & Andersson, 1913Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | Arafura sea snake | Western Australia, from near Dampier to Broome, and in the Arafura Sea |
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Aipysurus.
A subspecies nominated in 1974 as A. laevis pooleorum was elevated in 1983 to full species status, as A. pooleorum, without explanation by the authors. The same revision (Wells and Wellington, 1983) also resurrected the species name Aipysurus jukesii (Gray, 1846), recognised as a synonym of Lacépède's Aipysurus laevis. [2]
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References
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Further reading
- Boulenger, George Albert (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Genus Aipysurus, p. 303).
- Goin, Coleman J.; Goin, Olive B.; Zug, George R. (1978). Introduction to Herpetology, Third Edition. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company. xi + 378 pp. Template:ISBN. (Aipysurus, p. 332).
External links
- Aipysurus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 September 2007.