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<paragraph id="65DBAFFA0165B07FAD6882F0151873A4" pageId="8" pageNumber="137">Taxon classification Animalia Squamata Elapidae</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="E695046587B00242A907E60A78230A69" ID-CoL="3N8CM" LSID="Common names: English – Viperine Sea Snake; Farsi – Mâr-e daryâï-ye af’ ïshekl" authority="Schmidt, 1852" authorityName="Schmidt" authorityYear="1852" class="Squamata" family="Elapidae" genus="Hydrophis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hydrophis viperinus" order="Squamata" pageId="8" pageNumber="137" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="viperinus">Hydrophis viperinus (Schmidt, 1852)</taxonomicName>
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Figures 3b, 4a, 8, 9
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Schmidt, 1852: 79.
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<taxonomicName id="A663E76BFB50EC7C784D559F4CFF2B4D" class="Squamata" family="Elapidae" genus="Thalassophis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Thalassophis viperina" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="138" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="viperina">Thalassophis viperina</taxonomicName>
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<bibRefCitation id="C85D0D12DA161CFE46AE8B1E60A62DC6" author="Smith, MA" journalOrPublisher="Printed by order of the Trustees of the British museum (Natural History), London" pageId="29" pageNumber="158" title="Monograph of the Sea Snakes (Hydrophiidae)." year="1926">Smith 1926</bibRefCitation>
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<taxonomicName id="EE06ACE329CDF8768BAAA8FA30F5883F" class="Squamata" family="Elapidae" genus="Hydrophis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hydrophis jayakari" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="138" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="jayakari">Hydrophis jayakari</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="FEE389EE52A0A57504060F4032277DE1" class="Squamata" family="Elapidae" genus="Hydrophis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hydrophis plumbea" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="138" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="plumbea">Hydrophis plumbea</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName id="D89343902FD69DC5504810C44C39B3B4" class="Squamata" family="Elapidae" genus="Hydrophis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hydrophis viperinus" order="Squamata" pageId="9" pageNumber="138" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="viperinus">Hydrophis viperinus</taxonomicName>
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<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>
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<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>
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<paragraph id="DB9C0EF32C1F5416C6B80C770886A977" pageId="9" pageNumber="138">
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Maximum TL 740 mm (n = 2); [n = 8, mean TL 662 mm, maximum TL 780 mm (
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1939
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)].
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C32EB3F49BDE3FB42572AAEDC36D9241" pageId="9" pageNumber="138" type="distribution">
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<paragraph id="48EDE6FB79CC00EA5BD565CD882444AD" pageId="9" pageNumber="138">General distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="79A9CBBD001936FD873DC0169F6E6C52" pageId="9" pageNumber="138">
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Indian Ocean, from the Persian Gulf to Malay Archipelago (
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).
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="C3443B3C3B3AFF0525F7F5DCF143F5E1" pageId="9" pageNumber="138" type="iucn red list category">
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<paragraph id="CFFD104679580CA6118D7D94E5F5F9C8" pageId="9" pageNumber="138">IUCN Red List Category.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="9ECB6AEF5242EBD0C0A79F290536762E" pageId="9" pageNumber="138">
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Least concern (
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).
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="0BC18B933A81859D4AD427DA2A160212" lastPageId="10" lastPageNumber="139" pageId="9" pageNumber="138" type="remarks">
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<paragraph id="223D6179E2CEBD34B1DCE6F9FCF54C53" pageId="9" pageNumber="138">Remarks.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="E57577C50C519B2F50E3C19EC134CD82" lastPageId="10" lastPageNumber="139" pageId="9" pageNumber="138">
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<taxonomicName id="0AB04C3E0C96886E13A1F468E571CD9D" class="Squamata" family="Elapidae" genus="Hydrophis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hydrophis viperinus" pageId="9" pageNumber="138" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="viperinus">Hydrophis viperinus</taxonomicName>
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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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<bibRefCitation id="4CEA03CD70A03E004B9B84DAAAC8D2B3" author="Smith, MA" journalOrPublisher="Printed by order of the Trustees of the British museum (Natural History), London" pageId="29" pageNumber="158" title="Monograph of the Sea Snakes (Hydrophiidae)." year="1926">Smith (1926)</bibRefCitation>
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and
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<bibRefCitation id="99A72B69014D38EA7F212DB545AADD18" author="Wall, F" journalOrPublisher="H. R. Cottle, Colombo" pageId="30" pageNumber="159" title="Ophidiataprobanica or the snakes of Ceylon" year="1921">Wall (1921)</bibRefCitation>
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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: "their only exact records from the Persian Gulf are however from Muscat, which is situated about 400 km outside the Strait of Hormoz". We agree with
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(1939)
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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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<bibRefCitation id="753118F6966F0EC02A17D22702291F2B" author="Boulenger, GA" journalOrPublisher="Annals and Magazine of Natural History" pageId="26" pageNumber="155" pagination="407 - 408" title="A list of the reptiles and batrachians obtained near Muscat, Arabia, and presented to the British Museum by Surgeon-Major ASG Jayakar." url="10.1080/00222938709460086" volume="5" year="1887">Boulenger 1887</bibRefCitation>
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;
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1939
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) have all been
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<pageBreakToken id="9AE758C1D223B7EED2CEDB74E8E29302" pageId="10" pageNumber="139" start="start">collected</pageBreakToken>
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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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