Mohammad Abdul Wahed Chowdhury‡, Md. Rafiqul Islam‡, Abdul Auawal§, Najmul Hasan‡, Harij Uddin‡, Ibrahim Khalil Al Haidar§Corresponding author: Ibrahim Khalil Al Haidar ( ibrahimalhaidar88@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Abhijeet Bayani © Mohammad Abdul Wahed Chowdhury, Md. Rafiqul Islam, Abdul Auawal, Najmul Hasan, Harij Uddin, Ibrahim Khalil Al Haidar. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Chowdhury MAW, Islam MR, Auawal A, Uddin H, Hasan N, Haidar IKA (2021) On the occurrence of Persian Gulf Sea Snake, Hydrophis lapemoides (Gray, 1849) (Reptilia, Squamata, Elapidae, Hydrophiinae), along the coast of Bangladesh. Check List 17(4): 1075-1080. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.4.1075 |  |
We provide the first evidence of the presence of the Persian Gulf Sea Snake, Hydrophis lapemoides (Gray, 1849), along the coast of Bangladesh. This species was assumed to exist in there, but neither specimens nor confirmed observations exist until now. We document here the first confirmed record of H. lapemoides based on a freshly collected and taxonomically verified specimen from coastal Bangladesh. The Bangladeshi specimen had the following diagnostic characters: 55 black bands, a dorsal scale composition of 35:51:43, 342 ventrals, one pre-ocular, two post-oculars, 2+3 temporals, 8 supralabials (II largest and contact prefrontals; III–IV contact orbit) and 8 infralabials (I–IV contact genials).