Yellow-bellied Sea Snake
Hydrophis platurus · described by (LINNAEUS 1766)
The facts
- Scientific name
- Hydrophis platurus
- First described
- (LINNAEUS 1766)
- Also called
- Yellow-bellied Sea Snake
- Class
- Reptiles (Reptilia)
- Order
- Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)
- Group
- Snakes (Serpentes)
- Family
- Elapidae
- Genus
- Hydrophis
- Subspecies
- Hydrophis platurus platurus LINNAEUS 1766
- Hydrophis platurus xanthos BESSESEN & GALBREATH 2017
Taxonomic data: Uetz, P. et al. (eds.), The Reptile Database, under CC-BY 4.0.