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Taxonomy of the genus Microcephalophis Biodiversity of the family Elapidae [marine species]

Bibliography of the genus
Microcephalophis (Small-headed Sea Snakes)

(Reptilia: Serpentes: Elapidae [marine species])

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Microcephalophis in general

Hubbs, C.L. 1932. The use of the generic name Ophis for an eel, a snake and a mollusc. Copeia 1932: 26-27.

Microcephalophis cantoris

Sharma, R.C. 1982. Taxonomic and ecological studies on the reptiles of Gujarat. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 80(1-2): 85-106.

Wall, F. 1904. Occurrence of a rare sea snake (Distira gillespioe) on the Malabar coast. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 15: 723-726.

Microcephalophis gracilis

Abyerami, S.; Sivashanthini, K. 2008. Current status of marine snakes from Jaffna Peninsula, Sri Lanka with description of hitherto unrecorded Hydrophis fasciatus fasciatus (Schneider, 1799). International Journal of Zoological Research 4(4): 214-224.

Ineich, I.; Rasmussen, A.R. 1997. Sea snakes from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands (Elapidae, Laticaudinae and Hydrophiinae). Zoosystema 19(2-3): 185-192.

Limpus, C.J.; Lyon, B.J. 1979. Two additional sea snake species from south Queensland. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 11(1): 10-11.

Silva, A. de; Ukuwela, K.; Sivaruban, A.; Sanders, K.L. 2011. Preliminary observations on the reproductive biology of six species of Sri Lankan sea snakes (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae). Salamandra 47(4): 193-198.

Smith, M.A. 1917. Preliminary diagnoses of four new sea snakes. Journal of the Natural History Society of Siam 2(4): 340-342.

Talukdar, S.K.; Dattagupta, B. 1980. Notes on the occurrence of the sea snakes, Hydrophis mamillaris (Daudin) and Microcephalophis gracilis (Shaw) from West Bengal. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India 18(2) [1976]: 389-391.

Voris, H.K. 2017. Diversity of marine snakes on trawling grounds in the Straits of Malacca and the South China Sea. Tropical Natural History 17(2): 65–87.