Species profile—Hydrophis peronii (horned sea snake)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Reptilia (reptiles) → Elapidae (elapid snakes) → Hydrophis peronii (horned sea snake)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Reptilia (reptiles)
- Family
- Elapidae (elapid snakes)
- Scientific name
- Hydrophis peronii (Dumeril, 1853)
- Common name
- horned sea snake
- Type reference
- Dumeril, A.M.C. (1853). Prodrome de la classifcation des reptiles ophidiens. Mem. Acad. Sci., Paris, 23, 399-536.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 370
- Synonym(s)
- Acalyptophis peronii
- Alternate name(s)
- spiny-headed seasnake
Peron's 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=370
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
