Check List 10(6): 1563-1564, doi: 10.15560/10.6.1563
Rediscovery of the Yellow-bellied Sea Snake, Hydrophis platurus (Linnaeus, 1766) in Máncora, northern Perú
expand article infoJavier Quiñones‡, Karla García Burneo§, Claudio Barragan|
‡ Instituto del Mar del Perú, Peru§ Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad, Peru| Inspectorate SERVICES Perú S.A.C., Peru

Corresponding author: Javier Quiñones ( jquinones@imarpe.gob.pe )

© 2017 Javier Quiñones, Karla Burneo, Claudio Barragan.
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Citation: Quiñones J, Burneo K, Barragan C (2014) Rediscovery of the Yellow-bellied Sea Snake, Hydrophis platurus (Linnaeus, 1766) in Máncora, northern Perú. Check List 10(6): 1563-1564. https://doi.org/10.15560/10.6.1563
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Abstract
The presence of the Yellow-bellied Sea Snake (Hydrophis platurus) in the Southeast Pacific is rarely reported, with only one confirmed observation from northern Perú made in the early 1950s. We present new information based on a live-stranded specimen recently found in Peruvian waters, having washed ashore at Máncora (04.1255° S, 81.0958° W) in northern Perú on 12 July 2012. This stranding was associated with a Modoki El Niño warm event, since positive sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies up to 2.5°C were registered at this time.
Keywords
Hydrophis platurus; Peru; new record; Elapidae; Modoki El Niño