Aipysurus

Aipysurus
Aipysurus laevis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Elapidae
Subfamily:	Hydrophiinae
Genus:	Aipysurus Lacépède, 1804

Common names: (none).

Aipysurus is a genus of venomous sea snakes found in warm seas from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Nine species are recognized.

Species

Species	Authority	Subsp.*	Common name	Geographic range
A. apraefrontalis	M.A. Smith, 1926	0	short-nosed sea snake
A. duboisii	Bavay, 1869	0	Dubois' seasnake
A. eydouxii	(Gray, 1849)	0	spine-tailed seasnake
A. foliosquama	M.A. Smith, 1926	0	leaf-scaled sea snake
A. fuscus	(Tschudi, 1837)	0
A. laevis	Lacépède, 1804	0	olive sea snake
A. mosaicus	Sanders et al., 2012	0
A. pooleorum	L.A. Smith, 1974	0
A. tenuis	Lönnberg & Andersson, 1913	0

*) Not including the nominate subspecies (typical race).

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Aipysurus.

See also

• Snakebite.

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. ISBN 0-7167-0020-4. (Aipysurus, p. 332).
• Lacèpėde, [Bernard Germain] (1804). "Mémoire sur plusieurs animaux de la Nouvelle-Hollande dont la description n'a pas encore été publiée ". Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 4: 184-211. (Aipysurus, new genus, p. 210). (in French).

External links

• Aipysurus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 September 2007.