Species profile—Hydrophis zweifeli (Australian beaked sea snake)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Reptilia (reptiles) → Elapidae (elapid snakes) → Hydrophis zweifeli (Australian beaked sea snake)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Reptilia (reptiles)
- Family
- Elapidae (elapid snakes)
- Scientific name
- Hydrophis zweifeli (Kharin, 1985)
- Common name
- Australian beaked sea snake
- Type reference
- 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.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 353
- Synonym(s)
- Enhydrina schistosa
Enhydrina zweifeli - Alternate name(s)
- beaked sea snake
- Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Back on Track (BoT) status
- Low
- 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=353
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
