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Figures 3b, 4a, 8, 9
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viperina
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Schmidt, 1852: 79.
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<taxonomicName id="A663E76BFB50EC7C784D559F4CFF2B4D" family="Elapidae" genus="Thalassophis" higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Thalassophis viperina" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="138" rank="species" species="viperina">Thalassophis viperina</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="D89343902FD69DC5504810C44C39B3B4" family="Elapidae" genus="Hydrophis" higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hydrophis viperinus" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="138" rank="species" species="viperinus">Hydrophis viperinus</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph id="377D074DDDAD0298B8C0030BE44CD504" pageId="9" pageNumber="138">Material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="3DDEC68B290D37E4D44D6A0BC152552E" pageId="9" pageNumber="138">Gulf of Oman: 2 specimens, Beris and Pasa-Bandar, depth 20-40m [(ZMSBUK.HD.20), TL 737, SVL 656, HL 19.1, HW 12.6, GL 14.8, SNL 3, NEL 3, ND 35, GBD 67, NSL 8, NSR 29, BSR 47, NV 250; (ZMSBUK.HD.43), TL 740, SVL 657, HL 18.9, HW 14.9, GL 13.3, SNL 3.9, NEL 2.8, ND 38, GBD 68, NSL 7, NSR 30, BSR 43, NV 265], August 2013, collector: M. Rezaie-Atagholipour.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="85E0726A6B7C26F5D4A5164AD97EB3D2" pageId="9" pageNumber="138">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Head large, short and depressed (Figures 8-9); tip of rostral curved and markedly tridentate (Figures 2b, 3b); usually 7-8 supralabials, none in contact with prefrontal (Figure 8); 250-265 large ventrals [245-291 (
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)], markedly distinguishable from adjacent scales (Figure 4a), larger anteriorly than posteriorly; ventrals on anterior part of body wide and enlarged, half width of body, more or less rectangular in shape; 29-38 scale rows on neck, 39-47 on body [27-31 and 40-43 (
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<paragraph id="7BC3CA683E0671829BA0E49A59F71FD4" pageId="9" pageNumber="138">Coloration.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="51DABD81C75C5078E5A468189D57EA3A" pageId="9" pageNumber="138">Dark gray dorsally, dirty white ventrally; with or without pale body bands broadest dorsally; tip of tail usually black (Figure 9d).</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8C4D5BA11AFB1200D2714086284F2D54" pageId="9" pageNumber="138">Size.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="DB9C0EF32C1F5416C6B80C770886A977" pageId="9" pageNumber="138">
Maximum TL 740 mm (n = 2); [n = 8, mean TL 662 mm, maximum TL 780 mm (
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<paragraph id="48EDE6FB79CC00EA5BD565CD882444AD" pageId="9" pageNumber="138">General distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="79A9CBBD001936FD873DC0169F6E6C52" pageId="9" pageNumber="138">
Indian Ocean, from the Persian Gulf to Malay Archipelago (
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).
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<paragraph id="CFFD104679580CA6118D7D94E5F5F9C8" pageId="9" pageNumber="138">IUCN Red List Category.</paragraph>
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Least concern (
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).
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<paragraph id="223D6179E2CEBD34B1DCE6F9FCF54C53" pageId="9" pageNumber="138">Remarks.</paragraph>
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is distinct from other sea snakes in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman by having markedly rectangular-shaped and enlarged ventrals on the anterior part of the body.
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and
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mentioned that the Persian Gulf is the westernmost distribution limit of
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.
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(1939)
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had doubts about it: &quot;their only exact records from the Persian Gulf are however from Muscat, which is situated about 400 km outside the Strait of Hormoz&quot;. We agree with
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as the two specimens we examined in this study and the specimens examined in other studies in the area (e.g.
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;
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) have all been
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from the Gulf of Oman. We did not find any specimen of
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in Iranian coastal waters of the Persian Gulf during our field surveys. Therefore, population of
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in the Persian Gulf, if present, seems likely to be in low abundance.
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