Slender-necked sea snake
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Elapidae |
| Genus: | Hydrophis |
| Species: | H. coggeri
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| Binomial name | |
| Hydrophis coggeri (Kharin, 1984)
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The slender-necked sea snake (Hydrophis coggeri), also known commonly as Cogger's sea snake, is a species of marine venomous snake in the subfamily Hydrophiinae of the family Elapidae. The species is native to waters around western Australia and the southern Pacific Ocean.
Etymology
[edit]The specific name, coggeri, is in honor of Australian herpetologist Harold Cogger.[3]
Geographic range
[edit]H. coggeri is found in marine waters around Fiji, the Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, and western Australia. The type locality is in Fiji.[2]
Habitat
[edit]The preferred natural habitats of H. coggeri are coral reefs and seagrass beds, to a depth of 45 m (148 ft).[1]
Diet
[edit]H. coggeri preys upon eels.[1]
Reproduction
[edit]H. coggeri is viviparous.[2] A gravid female was found to contain three embryos.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Rasmussen, A.; Sanders, K.; Lukoschek, V.; Guinea, M.; Courtney, T. (2010). "Hydrophis coggeri ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T176743A7295429. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T176743A7295429.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ a b c Hydrophis coggeri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 10 January 2019.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Cogger's Sea Snake Hydrophis coggeri ", p. 56).
Further reading
[edit]- Cogger HG (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350.
- Wilson S, Swan G (2013). A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, Fourth Edition. Sydney: New Holland Publishers. 522 pp. ISBN 978-1921517280.
- Kharin V (1984). "[A review of sea snakes of the group Hydrophis sensu lato (Serpentes, Hydrophiidae). 3. The genus Leioselasma]". Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 63 (10): 1535–1546. (Leioselasma coggeri, new species, p. 1538). (in Russian).
- Rasmussen AR, Sanders KL, Guinea ML, Amey AP (2014). "Sea snakes in Australian waters (Serpentes: subfamilies Hydrophiinae and Laticaudinae)—a review with an updated identification key". Zootaxa 3869 (4): 351–371.
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