Hydrophis cantoris

Hydrophis cantoris is a species of venomous sea snake found in the Indian Ocean and its seas, bays and gulfs.

Hydrophis cantoris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Elapidae
Genus: Hydrophis
Species:
H. cantoris
Binomial name
Hydrophis cantoris
Günther, 1864
Synonyms[1]
  • Hydrophis cantoris
    Günther, 1864
  • Microcephalophis cantoris
    — Wall, 1921

Etymology

The specific name, cantoris, is in honor of Danish zoologist Theodore Edward Cantor.[2]

Description

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) scale rows around neck, 41-48 around 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.[3]

Total length males 1,450 mm (57 in), females 1,880 mm (74 in); tail length males 120 mm (4.7 in), females 140 mm (5.5 in).[3]

Geographic range

Indian Ocean (Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Myanmar (= Burma), Thailand, Malaysia), Andaman Islands.[1]

References
  1. "Hydrophis cantoris ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. 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 cantoris, p. 47).
  3. Leviton AE, Wogan GOU, Koo MS, Zug GR, Lucas RS, Vindum JV (2003). "The Dangerously Venomous Snakes of Myanmar: Illustrated Checklist with Keys". Proc. California Acad. Sci. 54 (24): 407-462. (Hydrophis cantoris, p. 431).

Further reading
  • Boulenger GA (1890). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xviii + 541 pp. (Hydrophis cantoris, p. 405).
  • 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 cantoris, p. 281 + Plate XIV).
  • Das I (1996). Biogeography of the Reptiles of South Asia. Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company. vii + 87 pp. + 16 plates. ISBN 978-0894649356. (Microcephalophis cantoris, p. 61).
  • Günther A (1864). The Reptiles of British India. London: The Ray Society. (Taylor & Francis, printers). xxvii + 452 pp. + Plates I-XXVI. (Hydrophis cantoris, new species, p. 374 + Plate XXV, figure U).
  • Smith MA (1943). The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.—Serpentes. London: Secretary of State for India. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 583 pp. (Microcephalophis cantoris, p. 475).
  • Wall F (1921). Ophidia Taprobanica or the Snakes of Ceylon. Colombo, Ceylon [Sri Lanka]: Colombo Museum. (H.R. Cottle, Government Printer). xxii + 581 pp. (Microcephalophis cantoris, new combination, pp. 330–334, figure 63).


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