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
- Conservation significant
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Indicator Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Venomous
- Species environment
- Marine
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://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.
