Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
- CAAB Code
- 39 125000 Show as JSON
- Scientific Name & Authority
- Elapidae: Hydrophiinae
- Rank
- Family
- CAAB category
- 39 - Reptilia Reptiles
- Family
- 39 125 (sea snakes) - show full list
- Common Name
- seasnakes
- Common Names List
- sea snakes
- Organism Type
- a sea snake
- Synonyms
- Hydrophiidae
- Taxon lists
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Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
- Habitat
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Marine unspecified
Coastal (0-40m) - Child Codes
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39 125902
Aipysurus spp.
39 125905 Emydocephalus spp.
39 125907 Ephalophis spp.
39 125908 Hydrelaps spp.
39 125909 Hydrophis spp.
39 125913 Microcephalophis spp.
39 125911 Parahydrophis spp.
- Previous Codes
(if any) - 00 705000
- Taxon Notes
- This is one of two marine subfamilies of this family. The other is the Laticaudinae - 39 124000. This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to this level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.
- Identifiers
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Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) NZOR-6-49243
Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living AustraliaCleveland (CSIRO) V2020100
World Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196114
View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
- Distribution Map
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View detailed map
Occurrence locations [27] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records
- Scientific Name verified against
- Rasmussen, A.R., Sanders, K.L., Guinea, M.L., Amey, A.P., 2014. Sea snakes in Australian waters (Serpentes: subfamilies Hydrophiinae and Laticaudinae) - a review with an updated identification key., Zootaxa, Vol. 3869(4): 351-371. . dx.doi.org/10.11464/zootaxa.3869.4.1 doi:10.11464/zootaxa.3869.4.1