The anomalous sea snake (''Hydrophis anomalus'') is a
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of
sea snake
Sea snakes, or coral reef snakes, are Elapidae, elapid snakes that inhabit Marine (ocean), marine environments for most or all of their lives. They belong to two subfamilies, Hydrophiinae and Sea krait, Laticaudinae. Hydrophiinae also includes ...
.
Its distribution includes the South Chinese Sea (Malaysia, Gulf of Thailand), and the Indian Ocean (Sumatra, Java, Borneo).
["''Hydrophis annandalei'' ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.]
References
* Schmidt, Philipp (1852). "Beiträge zur ferneren Kenntniss der Meerschlangen". ''Abh. Nat. Ver.'' Hamburg 2(2): 69-86
anomalus
Reptiles described in 1852
Taxa named by Philipp Schmidt
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
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