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Taxonomy of the genus Emydocephalus Biodiversity of the family Elapidae [marine species]

Bibliography of the genus
Emydocephalus (Turtle-headed Sea Snakes)

(Reptilia: Serpentes: Elapidae [marine species])

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Emydocephalus in general

Boulenger, G.A. 1908. Note on the Ophidian genus Emydocephalus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (London) 1: 231.

Rasmussen, A.R.; Ineich, I. 2010. Species diversity in the genus Emydocephalus Krefft, 1869 (Serpentes, Elapidae, Hydrophiinae): insight from morphology and anatomy. Herpetological Review 41(3): 285-290.

Voris, H.K. 1966. Fish eggs as the apparent sole food item for a genus of sea snake, Emydocephalus (Krefft). Ecology 47: 152-154.

Emydocephalus annulatus

Avolio, C.; Shine, R.; Pile, A. 2006. Sexual dimorphism in scale rugosity in sea snakes (Hydrophiidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 89(2): 343-354.

Avolio, C.; Shine, R.; Pile, A.J. 2006. The adaptive significance of sexually dimorphic scale rugosity in sea snakes. American Naturalist 167(5): 728-738.

Berry, P.F. 1986. Faunal surveys of the Rowley Shoals, Scott Reef and Seringapatam Reef, north western Australia. Part 8. Insects, reptiles, birds and seagrasses. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 25: 105-106.

Brischoux, F.; Rolland, V.; Bonnet, X.; Caillaud, M.; Shine, R. 2012. Effects of oceanic salinity on body condition in sea snakes. Integrative and Comparative Biology 52(2): 235-244.

Goiran, C.; Bustamante, P.; Shine, R. 2017. Industrial melanism in the seasnake Emydocephalus annulatus. Current Biology 27(16): 2510-2513

Goiran, C.; Dubey, S.; Shine, R. 2013. Effects of season, sex and body size on the feeding ecology of turtle-headed sea snakes (Emydocephalus annulatus) on IndoPacific inshore coral reefs. Coral Reefs 32(2): 527-538.

Goiran, C.; Shine, R. 2013. Decline in sea snake abundance on a protected coral reef system in the New Caledonian Lagoon. Coral Reefs 32(1): 281-284.

Guinea, M.L. 1996. Functions of the cephalic scales of the sea snake Emydocephalus annulatus. Journal of Herpetology 30(1): 126-128.

Lukoschek, V.; Heatwole, H.; Grech, A.; Burns, G.; Marsh, H. 2007. Distribution of two species of sea snakes, Aipysurus laevis and Emydocephalus annulatus, in the southern Great Barrier Reef: metapopulation dynamics, marine protected areas and conservation. Coral Reefs 26(2): 291-307.

Lukoschek, V.; Shine, R. 2012. Sea snakes rarely venture far from home. Ecology and Evolution 2(6): 1113-1121.

Minton, S.A.; Dunson, W.W. 1985. Sea snakes collected at Chesterfield Reefs, Coral Sea. Atoll Research Bulletin 292: 101-108.

Shine, R. 2005. All at sea: aquatic life modifies mate-recognition modalities in sea snakes (Emydocephalus annulatus, Hydrophiidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 57(6): 591-598.

Shine, R.; Bonnet, X.; Elphick, M.J.; Barrott, E.G. 2004. A novel foraging mode in snakes: Browsing by the sea snake Emydocephalus annulatus (Serpentes, Hydrophiidae). Functional Ecology 18(1): 16-24.

Shine, R.; Brischoux, F.; Pile, A.J. 2010. A seasnake's colour affects its susceptibility to algal fouling. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Series B 277(1693): 2459-2464.

Shine, R.; Goiran, C.; Shine, T.; Fauvel, T.; Brischoux, F. 2012. Phenotypic divergence between seasnake (Emydocephalus annulatus) populations from adjacent bays of the New Caledonian Lagoon. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 107(4): 824-832.

Shine, R.; Shine, T.; Shine, B. 2003. Intraspecific habitat partitioning by the sea snake Emydocephalus annulatus (Serpentes, Hydrophiidae): The effects of sex, body size, and colour pattern. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 80(1): 1-10.

Shine, R.; Shine, T.; Shine, J.M.; Shine, B.G. 2005. Synchrony in capture dates suggests cryptic social organization in sea snakes (Emydocephalus annulatus, Hydrophiidae). Austral Ecology 30(7): 805-811.

Emydocephalus ijimae

Huang, W. 1996. Sexual size dimorphism of sea snakes in Taiwan. Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural Science (Taichung) 7: 113-120.

Masunaga, G.; Matsuura, R.; Yoshino, T.; Ota, H. 2003. Reproductive biology of the viviparous sea snake Emydocephalus ijimae (Reptilia: Elapidae: Hydrophiinae) under a seasonal environment in the northern hemisphere. Herpetological Journal 13(3): 113-119.

Masunaga, G.; Ota, H. 2003. Growth and reproduction of the sea snake, Emydocephalus ijimae, in the central Ryukyus, Japan: a mark and recapture study. Zoological Science (Tokyo) 20(4): 461-470.

Moriguchi, H. 1991. An observation on the reproduction of Ijima sea snake, Emydocephalus ijimae. The Snake 23(2): 115-116.

Emydocephalus szczerbaki

Dotsenko, I.B. 2011. [Emydocephalus szczerbaki sp. n. (Serpentes, Elapidae, Hydrophiinae) ? a new species of the turtleheaded sea snake genus from Vietnam]. (In Russian). Zbirnik Prats’ Zoologichnogo Museyu. Kiev. 41: 128-138. [2010].