Hydrophis brooki

Hydrophis brookii is a species of venomous sea snake.[1][2]

Hydrophis brookii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Elapidae
Genus:	Hydrophis
Species:	H. brookii
Binomial name
Hydrophis brookii Günther, 1872

Etymology

The specific name, brookii, is in honor of British adventurer James Brooke.[3]

Geographic range

H. brookii is found in the Indian Ocean (Malaysia, Vietnam, western Indonesia: Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan) and the Gulf of Thailand.[1]

References

1. "Hydrophis brookii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org
2. "Hydrophis brooki ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de.
3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Hydrophis brookii, p. 39).

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (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. (Hydrophis brookii, pp. 282–283).
• Günther A (1872). "On the Reptiles and Amphibians of Borneo". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1872: 586-600 + Plates XXXV-XL. (Hydrophis brookii, new species, p. 597, Figure 5).
• Kharin VE (1983). "[A new species of the genus Hydrophis sensu lato (Serpentes, Hydrophiidae) from the North Australian Shelf ]". Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 62 (11): 1751–1753. (in Russian).
• Kharin VE (2004). "[A review of sea snakes of the genus Hydrophis sensu stricto (Serpentes, Hydrophiidae)]". Biologiya Morya (Vladivostok) 30 (6): 447–454. (in Russian).