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- Title
Addition of the Sea Snake, Hydrophis stokesii (Reptilia: Squamata: Elapidae), to the Herpetofauna of Japan.
- Authors
Sasai, Takahide; Yamamoto, Takumi; Oka, Shin-ichiro; Toda, Mamoru
- Abstract
Hydrophis stokesii was collected in the coastal water of Okinawajima Island on 30 March 2021. This is the first record of the species from Japanese waters, extending its known range of occurrence toward east-northeast by more than 900 km. The snake was an adult female, 1,545 mm in snout-vent length, 203 mm in tail length, and 3,360 g in body mass. It had 11 well-developed yolked follicles in ovaries and a half-digested spiny puffer fish (Diodon sp.) in its stomach. This individual may possibly represent a stable population of H. stokesii in the Okinawan waters.
- Subjects
JAPAN; HERPETOFAUNA; REPTILES; SQUAMATA; SNAKES; PUFFERS (Fish); COLUBRIDAE
- Publication
Current Herpetology, 2021, Vol 40, Issue 2, p190
- ISSN
1345-5834
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5358/hsj.40.190