Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Elapidae > Hydrophis > Hydrophis cantoris

Hydrophis cantoris (Gunther's Sea Snake)

Synonyms: Distira gillespiae

Wikipedia Abstract

Hydrophis cantoris is a species of venomous sea snake found in the Indian Ocean and its seas, bays and gulfs.
View Wikipedia Record: Hydrophis cantoris

Attributes

Litter Size [1]  5

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests Bangladesh, India Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Malabar Coast moist forests India Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Northwestern thorn scrub forests India, Pakistan Indo-Malayan Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Sundarbans mangroves Bangladesh, India Indo-Malayan Mangroves

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Sunderban National Park 261613 India  

Range Map

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0