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Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Distribution |
Horned Sea Snake |
Acalyptophis peronii |
NSW(?), NT, Qld, WA |
Reef Shallows or Dubois's Sea Snake |
Aipysurus duboisii |
NT, Qld, WA |
Stagger-banded or Spine-tailed Sea Snake |
Aipysurus eydouxii |
NT, Qld, WA |
Golden or Olive Sea Snake |
Aipysurus laevis |
NSW(?), NT, Qld, WA |
Mosaic Sea Snake |
Aipysurus mosaicus |
NT, Qld, WA |
Stokes's Sea Snake |
Astrotia stokesii |
NSW, NT, Qld, WA |
Spectacled Sea Snake |
Hydrophis ( or Disteira) kingii |
NSW(?), NT, Qld, WA |
Olive-headed Sea Snake
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Hydrophis ( or Disteira) major |
NSW(?), NT, Qld, WA |
Turtle-headed Sea Snake (Harmless) |
Emydocephalus annulatus |
NT, Qld, WA (also around and some islands in the Pacific Ocean including the Philippines and the Loyalty Islands of New Caledonia. |
Beaked Sea Snake |
Enhydrina schistosa |
Arabian/Persian Gulf (Oman, United Arab Emirates [UAE], Iran, etc.) south of the Seychelles
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Zweifel's Sea Snake |
Enhydrina zweifeli (provisional name) split from Enhydrina schistosa |
NT, Qld, New Guinea |
Black-ringed Mangrove Sea Snake |
Hydrelaps darwiniensis |
NT, Qld, WA |
Belcher's Sea Snake |
Emydocephalus orarius |
NT(?), Qld(?) |
Spine-bellied Sea Snake |
Hydrophis (was Lapemis) curtus |
NT, Qld, WA through S.E. Asia to the Persian Gulf |
Belcher's Sea Snake
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Hydrophis belcheri |
Northern Waters away from the coast between Australia, Indonesia and New Guinea |
Elegant Sea Snake |
Hydrophis elegans |
NSW, NT, Qld, WA, SA |
Hardwicke’s Spine-bellied Sea Snake |
Hydrophis (was Lapemis) hardwickii (was curtis hardwickii) STATUS UNCERTAIN - see Hydrophis curtus |
NT, Qld, WA |
Plain Sea Snake |
Hydrophis (or Chitulia) inornatus |
NT, WA(?) |
Small-headed Sea Snake |
Hydrophis mcdowelli |
NT, Qld, WA |
Black-banded Robust Sea Snake |
Hydrophis (or Mediohydrophis) melanosoma |
NT(?), Qld, WA(?) |
Ocellated Sea Snake (obsolete see Ornate Reef Seasnake)
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Hydrophis ocellatus (obsolete - now called Hydrophis ornatus) | >
NSW, NT, Tas, Qld, WA |
Ornate Reef Seasnake |
Hydrophis ornatus (was called Hydrophis ocellatus) |
NSW, NT, Tas, Qld, WA |
Large-headed Sea Snake |
Hydrophis pacificus |
NT, Qld |
Common Yellow-bellied Sea Snake |
Hydrophis (was Pelamis) platurus platurus |
NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA, CKI, CI, NI, LHI, SA? |
Northern Mangrove Sea Snake |
Parahydrophis mertoni |
NT, Qld |
CI = Christmas Island |
CKI = Cocos (Keeling) Island |
NSW = New South Wales |
NT = Northern Territory |
Qld = Queensland
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SA = South Australia |
Tas = Tasmania |
Vic = Victoria |
WA = Western Australia |
NI = Norfolk Island |
LHI = Lord Howe Island |
ACT = Australian Capital Territory
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