Hydrophis [Acalyptophis] peronii (A.H.A. Duméril, 1853)

Spiny-headed Sea Snake or Horned Sea Snake

Acalyptus peronii A.H.A. Duméril, 1853:522 .

Acalyptophis peronii, Boulenger, 1896:269 .— Smith, 1926:102, figs. 28–29.— David and Ineich, 1999:55.— Wallach, Williams, and Boundy, 2014:2.

Hydrophis [Acalyptophis] peronii, Leviton, Brown, and Siler, 2014:509, figs. 20C, 42.

TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— New Holland (but questioned by Smith, 1926:103). Holotype: MNHN 7177.

PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION.— Philippines (unknown, but it has been reported from the coast of the Malaysian Peninsula and Vietnam in the South China Sea).

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION (OTHER THAN PHILIPPINES).— Gulf of Siam, including coastal Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, South China Sea north to Taiwan, and east to New Guinea, New Caledonia, and Australia.

REMARKS.— We have tentatively assigned this species to Hydrophis consistent with the treatments of Hydrophis and related nominal genera by Sanders et al. (2013:583) and Pyron et al. (2013).

CONSERVATION STATUS [IUCN].— Least Concern [2016] ver. 3.1.