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Hydrophis macdowelli Kharin, 1983
McDowell's sea snake| Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050 |
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS
Not assigned | Squamata | Elapidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology
Demersal; depth range 10 - 40 m (Ref. 2352). Tropical
Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions
Western Central Pacific: New Caledonia and Australia.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?, range 35 - 82 cm Max length : 90.0 cm SVL male/unsexed; (Ref. 2352); common length : 60.0 cm SVL male/unsexed; (Ref. 2352)
Found on gray bottoms in the middle of a lagoon. Highly cautious snake. Actively feeds on prey in burrows made by fishes in sediments (Ref. 2352).
Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Main reference
References | Coordinator | Collaborators
Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, T.M. Orrell, D. Nicolson, L.E. Paglinawan, N. Bailly, P.M. Kirk, T. Bourgoin and J. van Hertum (eds.). 2008. (Ref. 75097)
IUCN Red List Status
(Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)
Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 15 February 2009
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
CMS (Ref. 116361)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
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Human Related
Stamps, coins, misc.
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Internet sources
BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record
Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref. 115969): 24.3 - 28.8, mean 27.5 (based on 552 cells).