Enhydrina zweifeli

Enhydrina zweifeli
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Elapidae
Genus:Enhydrina
Species: E. zweifeli
Binomial name
Enhydrina zweifeli
Kharin, 1985

Enhydrina zweifeli is a species of snakes found from New Guinea to Australia (Northern Territory and Queensland). In the past they were thought to be Enhydrina schistosa, but after DNA testing are now provisionally identified as Enhydrina zweifeli. DNA test have shown they are not related to Enhydrina schistosa.[2][3]

Enhydrina zweifeli are commonly known as the Sepik or Zweifel’s beaked seasnake. Enhydrina zweifeli is a highly venomous species of sea snake. [4]

Studied Enhydrina zweifeli have been near the mouth of Sepik River of New Guinea.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Rasmussen, A. (2010). "Enhydrina zweifeli". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2010: e.T176716A7289184. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T176716A7289184.en. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  2. ↑ Ukuwela, K.D.B. et al. (online 2012): Molecular evidence that the deadliest sea snake Enhydrina schistosa (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae) consists of two convergent species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.031
  3. ↑ fox News, Deadliest sea snake splits in two, By Douglas Main,, December 11, 2012
  4. ↑ venomdoc.com, Molecular evidence that the deadliest sea snake, Enhydrina schistosa (Elapidae:Hydrophiinae) consists of two convergent species
  5. ↑ The University of Queensland, Deadly sea snake has a doppelganger, 19 November 2012
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  • Kharin V. E. 1985. A new species of sea snakes of the genus Enhydrina (Serpentes, Hydrophiidae) from waters of New Guinea. [in Russian]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 64 (5): 785-787
  • Kharin, Vladimir E. and Vladimir P. Czeblukov 2009. A Revision of the Sea Snakes of Subfamily Hydrophiinae. 1. Tribe Disteirini Nov. (Serpentes: Hydrophiidae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 16 (3):183-202
  • Sanders, K.L.; Michael S.Y. Lee, Mumpuni, Terry Bertozzi, Arne R. Rasmussen 2012. Multilocus phylogeny and recent rapid radiation of the viviparous sea snakes (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66 (3): 575-591
  • Ukuwela, Kanishka D.B.; Anslem de Silva, Mumpuni, Bryan G. Fry, Michael S.Y. Lee, Kate L. Sanders 2012. Molecular evidence that the deadliest sea snake Enhydrina schistosa (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae) consists of two convergent species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66 (1): 262-269
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