Species profile—Hydrophis curtus (spine-bellied sea snake)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Reptilia (reptiles) → Elapidae (elapid snakes) → Hydrophis curtus (spine-bellied sea snake)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Reptilia (reptiles)
- Family
- Elapidae (elapid snakes)
- Scientific name
- Hydrophis curtus (Shaw, 1802)
- Common name
- spine-bellied sea snake
- Type reference
- Shaw, G. (1802). General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Vol.3, part 2. G. Kearsley, Thomas Davison, London: 313-615.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 340
- Synonym(s)
- Lapemis curtus
Hydrophis hardwickii
Lapemis hardwickii - Alternate name(s)
- Shaw's sea snake
short sea snake - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Indicator Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Venomous
- Species environment
- Marine
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=340
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
