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Das
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<bibRefCitation id="E57031DBFFD89C60190CFD1FFB6F0E15" author="Smith, M. A." box="[1124,1274,763,789]" pageId="18" pageNumber="319" refId="ref8575" refString="Smith, M. A. (1926) Monograph on the Sea Snakes. (Hydrophiidae). British Museum, London, xvii + 130 pp." type="book" year="1926">Smith (1926)</bibRefCitation>
stated it to be an adult female, with scale rows 19, ventrals 238 and subcaudals 35.
<bibRefCitation id="E57031DBFFD89C601EC7FCFBFBDA0E39" author="Sclater, W. L." box="[943,1103,799,825]" pageId="18" pageNumber="319" refId="ref8405" refString="Sclater, W. L. (1891) List of Snakes in the Indian Museum. Printed by the order of the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 79 pp." type="book" year="1891">Sclater (1891)</bibRefCitation>
listed ZSI 8289 from Tollys Nullah under the species account of “
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<emphasis id="B3959038FFD89C601F5FFCA7FCB20E5D" box="[567,807,835,861]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="319">Platurus laticaudatus</emphasis>
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”, i.e. currently
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<emphasis id="B3959038FFD89C601EBDFCA7FB580E5D" box="[981,1229,835,861]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="319">Laticauda laticaudata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, though he did not explicitly remark on the
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status of the specimen mentioned.
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