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

Bibliography of the genus
Laticauda (Sea Kraits)

(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.


Laticauda in general

Bonnet, X. 2012. Long-term field study of Sea Kraits in New Caledonia: fundamental issues and conservation. Integrative and Comparative Biology 52(2): 281-295.

Bonnet, X.; Brischoux, F.; Lang, R. 2010. Highly venomous sea kraits must fight to get their prey. Coral Reefs 29(2): 379.

Brischoux, F.; Briand, M.J.; Gopal, B.; Bonnet, X. 2013. Variations of natremia in sea kraits (Laticauda spp.) kept in seawater and fresh water. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology 166(2): 333-337.

Brischoux, F.; Peacock, S.; Bonnet, X. 2013. Natural history notes: Laticauda spp. (Sea Krait). Avian predation. Herpetological Review 44(2): 331-332.

Brischoux, F.; Tingley, R.; Shine, R.; Lillywhite, H.B. 2013. Behavioral and physiological correlates of the geographic distributions of amphibious sea kraits (Laticauda spp.). Journal of Sea Research 76: 1-4.

Cheng, Y.C.; Tu, M.C.; Tsai, J.R.; Hui-Chen, L.; Lin, L.Y. 2013. Comparison of the osmoregulatory capabilities among three amphibious sea snakes (Laticauda spp.) in Taiwan. Zoological Studies 52: Article28, 1-10.

Cogger, H.G.; Heatwole, H.F. 2006. Laticauda frontalis (de Vis, 1905) and Laticauda saintgironsi n. sp. from Vanuatu and New Caledonia (Serpentes: Elapidae: Laticaudinae) - a new lineage of Sea Kraits? Records of the Australian Museum 58(2): 245-256.

Fauvel, T.; Brischoux, F.; Briand, M.J.; Bonnet, X. 2012. Do researchers impact their study populations? Assessing the effect of field procedures in a long term population monitoring of sea kraits. Amphibia-Reptilia 33(3-4): 365-372.

Fujimi, T.J.; Tsuchiya, T.; Tamiya, T. 2002. A comparative analysis of invaded sequences from group IA phospholipase A2 genes provides evidence about the divergence period of genes groups and snake families. Toxicon 40(7): 873-884.

Gherghel, I.; Papes, M.; Brischoux, F.; Sahlean, T.; Strugariu, A. 2016. A revision of the distribution of sea kraits (Reptilia, Laticauda) with an updated occurrence dataset for ecological and conservation research. ZooKeys 569: 135–148.

Gill, B.J.; Whitaker, A.H. 2014. Records of sea-kraits (Serpentes: Laticaudidae: Laticauda) in New Zealand. Records of the Auckland Museum 49: 39-42.

Gorman, G.C. 1981. The chromosomes of Laticauda and a review of karyotypic evolution in the Elapidae. Journal of Herpetology 15(2): 225-233.

Heatwole, H. 2010. Distribution and geographic variation of sea kraits of the Laticauda colubrina complex (Serpentes, Elapidae, Laticaudinae). Ph.D. thesis, James Cook University, Townsville. 285 pp.

Heatwole, H.; Busack, S.D.; Cogger, H. 2005. Geographic variation in Sea Kraits of the Laticauda colubrina complex (Serpentes: Elapidae: Hydrophiinae: Laticaudini). Herpetological Monographs 19: 1-136.

Heatwole, H.; Cogger, H.G. 2013. Provenance errors and vagrants: their role in underestimating the conservation status of sea kraits (Elapidae: Laticaudinae). Pacific Conservation Biology 19(3-4): 295-302.

Heatwole, H.; Grech, A.; Marsh, H. 2017. Paleoclimatology, paleogeography, and the evolution and distribution of Sea Kraits (Serpentes; Elapidae; Laticauda). Herpetological Monographs 31(1): 1-17.

Heatwole, H.; Seymour, R.S. 1978. Cutaneous oxygen uptake in three groups of aquatic snakes. Australian Journal of Zoology 26(3): 481-486.

Herre, A.W.C.T.; Rabor, D.S. 1949. Notes on Philippine sea snakes of the genus Laticauda. Copeia 1949: 282-284.

Kharin, V.E.; Czeblukov, V.P. 2006. A new revision of Sea Kraits of family Laticaudidae Cope, 1879 (Serpentes: Colubroidea). Russian Journal of Herpetology 13(3): 227-241.

Kidera, N.; Mori, A.; Tu, M.C. 2013. Comparison of freshwater discrimination ability in three species of sea kraits (Laticauda semifasciata, L. laticaudata and L. colubrina). Journal of Comparative Physiology A Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology 199(3): 191-195.

Lillywhite, H.B.; Babonis, L.S.; Sheehy, C.M.; Tu, M.C. 2008. Sea snakes (Laticauda spp.) require fresh drinking water: implication for the distribution and persistence of populations. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 81(6): 785-796.

Lillywhite, H.B.; Menon, J.G.; Menon, G.K.; Sheehy, C.M.; Tu, M.C. 2009. Water exchange and permeability properties of the skin in three species of amphibious sea snakes (Laticauda spp.). Journal of Experimental Biology 212(12): 1921-1929.

Lillywhite, H.B.; Tu, M.C. 2011. Abundance of Sea Kraits correlates with precipitation. PLoS ONE 6(12): e28556, 1-4.

Liu, Y.L.; Chen, Y.H.; Lillywhite, H.B.; Tu, M.C. 2012. Habitat selection by Sea Kraits (Laticauda spp.) at Coastal sites of Orchid Island, Taiwan. Integrative and Comparative Biology 52(2): 274-280.

Liu, Y.L.; Lillywhite, H.B.; Tu, M.C. 2010. Sea snakes anticipate tropical cyclone. Marine Biology (Berlin) 157(11): 2369-2373.

McCarthy, C.J. 1986. Relationships of the laticaudine sea snakes (Serpentes: Elapidae: Laticaudinae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology) 50(2): 127-161.

Reed, R.N.; Shine, R.; Shetty, S. 2002. Sea Kraits (Squamata: Laticauda spp.) as a useful bioassay for assessing local diversity of eels (Muraenidae, Congridae) in the western Pacific Ocean. Copeia 2002(4): 1098-1101.

Saint-Girons, H. 1964. Notes sur l'ecologie et la structure des populations des Laticaudinae (Serpentes, Hydrophidae) en Nouvelle Caledonie. La Terre et la Vie (Paris) 111: 185-214.

Stejneger, L.H. 1936. Types of the amphibian and reptilian genera proposed by Laurenti in 1768. Copeia 1936(3): 133-141.

Wang, S.; Tu, M.C. 2013. The crawling speeds of the three sympatric laticaudine sea kraits on different substrates. Bioformosa 48: 27-32.

Laticauda colubrina

Bonnet, X.; Ineich, I.; Shine, R. 2005. Terrestrial locomotion in sea snakes: the effects of sex and species on cliff-climbing ability in Sea Kraits (Serpentes, Elapidae, Laticauda). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 85(4): 433-441.

Brongersma, L.D. 1947. Zoological notes from Port Dickson. 1. Amphibians and reptiles. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 27: 300-308.

Dabruzzi, T.F.; Sutton, M.A.; Bennett, W.A. 2012. Metabolic thermal sensitivity optimizes sea krait amphibious physiology. Herpetologica 68(2): 218-225.

Das, I. 1992. Notes on egg sizes and ticks of the yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrinus) on Pulau Punyit, Brunei Darussalam. Hamadryad 17: 45-46.

Das, I.; Charles, J.K. 1993. A contribution to the herpetology of Bako National Park, Sarawak, east Malaysia. Hamadryad 18: 24-27.

Franklin, V. 1997. Captive molt frequency of the sea snake (Laticauda colubrina). American Zoo and Aquarium Association Regional Conference Proceedings 1997: 295-296.

Frith, C.B. 1974. Second record of the sea snake Laticauda colubrina in Thailand water. Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society 25: 209.

Gorman, G.C.; Licht, P.; McCollum, F. 1981. Annual reproductive patterns in three species of marine snakes from the central Phillippines. Journal of Herpetology 15(3): 335-354.

Guinea, M.L. 1991. Rainwater drinking by the sea krait Laticauda colubrina. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 21(2): 13-14.

Guinea, M.L. 1995. Eggshell characteristics of the banded sea krait (Laticauda colubrina) and the banded iguana (Brachylophus fasciatus) from Fiji. South Pacific Journal of Natural Science 14: 169-186.

Heatwole, H. 1981. Role of the saccular lung in the diving of the sea krait, Laticauda colubrina (Serpentes: Laticaudidae). Australian Journal of Herpetology 1(1): 11-16.

Heatwole, H.; Abbott, P. 1998. Evidence for sidewinding in the banded sea krait, Laticauda colubrina. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 28(2): 14-15.

Heatwole, H.; Brischoux, F. 2013. Présence suspectée du tricot rayé à lèvres jaunes Laticauda colubrina (Schneider, 1799) (Elapidae, Laticaudinae) à Wallis et Futuna. Bulletin de la Societe Herpetologique de France 147: 347-350.

Heatwole, H.; Powell, J. 1998. Resistance of eels (Gymnothorax) to the venom of sea kraits (Laticauda colubrina): a test of coevolution. Toxicon 36(4): 619-625.

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

Kharin, V.E. 1984. The first record of three species of sea snakes from Vietnam with a note on rare variety of Praescutata viperina. Biologiya Morya (Vladivostok) 1984(2): 26-30.

Kharin, V.E. 2006. An annotated checklist of sea snakes of Vietnam, with notes on a new record of the Yellow-lipped Sea Krait, Laticauda colubrina (Schneider, 1799) (Laticaudidae, Hydrophiidae). Russian Journal of Marine Biology 32(4): 223-228.

Kishida, T.; Hayano, A.; Inoue-Murayama, M.; Hikida, T. 2013. Pairwise comparison of orthologous olfactory receptor genes between two sympatric sibling sea kraits of the genus Laticauda in Vanuatu. Zoological Science (Tokyo) 30(6): 425-431.

Lading, E.A.; Stuebing, R.B.; Voris, H.K. 1991. A population size estimate of the yellow-lipped sea krait, Laticauda colubrina, on Kalampunian Damit Island, Sabah, Malaysia. Copeia 1991(4): 1139-1142.

Nais, J.; Lamri, A. 1991. Sabah parks. pp. 184-189. In: Kiew, R. (ed.). The state of nature conservation in Malaysia. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. 238 pp.

Ota, H.; Takahashi, H.; Kamezaki, N. 1985. On the specimens of yellow lipped sea krait Laticauda colubrina from the Yaeyama Group, Ryukyu Archipelago. The Snake 17(2): 156-159.

Ota, H.; Toriba, M.; Takahashi, H. 1986. The alternation pattern of dorsal scale rows in the yellow-lipped sea snake Laticauda colubrina, with special reference to sexual dimorphism. Japanese Journal of Herpetology 11(3): 145-151.

Pernetta, J.C. 1977. Observations on the habits and the morphology of the sea snake Laticauda colubrina (Schneider) in Fiji. Canadian Journal of Zoology 55(10): 1612-1619.

Pimento, R.J. 1972. Some notes on the sea snake Laticauda colubrina (Schneider). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 69(1): 191-192.

Radcliffe, C.W.; Chiszar, D. 1980. A descriptive analysis of predatory behavior in the yellow lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina). Journal of Herpetology 14(4): 422-424.

Rasmussen, A.R.; Elmberg, J. 2009. 'Head for my tail': a new hypothesis to explain how venomous sea snakes avoid becoming prey. Marine Ecology 30(4): 385-390.

Shaw, C.E. 1957. Sea serpents do exist. Zoonooz 30: 10-12.

Shetty, S.; Prasad, K.V.D. 1997. Geographic variation in the number of bands in Laticauda colubrina. Hamadryad 21 [1996]: 44-45.

Shetty, S.; Prasad, K.V.D. 1997. Studies on the terrestrial behaviour of Laticauda colubrina in the Andaman Islands, India. Hamadryad 21 [1996]: 23-26.

Shetty, S.; Shine, R. 2002. Activity patterns of yellow-lipped Sea Kraits (Laticauda colubrina) on a Fijian Island. Copeia 2002(1): 77-85.

Shetty, S.; Shine, R. 2002. Philopatry and homing behavior of sea snakes (Laticauda colubrina) from two adjacent islands in Fiji. Conservation Biology 16(5): 1422-1426.

Shetty, S.; Shine, R. 2002. Sexual divergence in diets and morphology in Fijian sea snakes Laticauda colubrina (Laticaudinae). Austral Ecology 27(1): 77-84.

Shetty, S.; Shine, R. 2002. The mating system of yellow-lipped Sea Kraits (Laticauda colubrina: Laticaudidae). Herpetologica 58(2): 170-180.

Shetty, S.; Sivasundar, A. 1998. Using passive integrated transponders to study the ecology of Laticauda colubrina. Hamadryad 23: 71-76.

Shine, R.; Bonnet, X.; Cogger, H.G. 2003. Antipredator tactics of amphibious sea-snakes (Serpentes, Laticaudidae). Ethology 109(6): 533-542.

Shine, R.; Reed, R.N.; Shetty, S.; Cogger, H.G. 2002. Relationships between sexual dimorphism and niche partitioning within a clade of sea-snakes (Laticaudinae). Oecologia (Berlin) 133(1): 45-53.

Shine, R.; Reed, R.N.; Shetty, S.; LeMaster, M.P.; Mason, R.T. 2002. Reproductive isolating mechanisms between two sympatric sibling species of sea snakes. Evolution 56(8): 1655-1662.

Shine, R.; Shetty, S. 2001. Moving in two worlds: aquatic and terrestrial locomotion in sea snakes (Laticauda colubrina, Laticaudidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14(2): 338-346.

Shine, R.; Shetty, S. 2001. The influence of natural selection and sexual selection on the tails of sea-snakes (Laticauda colubrina). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 74(1): 121-129.

Smedley, N. 1930. Oviparity in a sea snake (Laticauda colubrina). Nature (London) 126(3174): 312-313.

Smedley, N. 1931. Oviparity in a seasnake, Laticauda colubrina (Schneid.). Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 5: 54-59.

Steinicke, H.; Trutnau, L. 1993. Bemerkungen über den Nattern-Plattschwanz Laticauda colubrina (Schneider, 1799) und über das Auffinden eines Exemplars auf Korfu. Herpetofauna (Weinstadt) 15(83): 22-24.

Tabata, R.; Tashiro, F.; Nishizawa, H.; Takagi, J.; Kidera, N.; Mitamura, H. 2017. Stomach contents of three Sea Kraits (Hydrophiinae: Laticauda spp.) in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Current Herpetology 36(2): 127-134

Tyabji, Z.; Mohanty, N.P.; Young, E.; Khan, T. 2018. The terrestrial life of sea kraits: insights from a long-term study on two Laticauda species (Reptilia: Squamata: Elapidae) in the Andaman Islands, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 10(11): 12443–12450.

Volsøe, H. 1958. Additional specimens of snakes from Rennell Island. Nat. Hist. Rennell Island (Copenhagen) 1: 227-228.

Voris, H.K.; Voris, H.H. 1998. Pendler zwischen den tropischen Gezeiten: das Leben der Seekobra Laticauda colubrina. Reptilia (D) 3(14): 26-33.

Wang, S.; Lillywhite, H.B.; Cheng, Y.C.; Tu, M.C. 2013. Variation of traits and habitat use in three species of sea kraits in Taiwan. Journal of Zoology (London) 290(1): 19-26.

Wang, S.; Lillywhite, H.B.; Tu, M.C. 2013. Locomotor performance of three sympatric species of sea kraits (Laticauda spp.) from Orchid Island, Taiwan. Zoological Studies 52: 43.

Laticauda crockeri

Cogger, H.G.; Heatwole, H.; Ishikawa, Y.; McCoy, M.; Tamiya, N.; Teruuchi, T. 1987. The status and natural history of the Rennell Island sea krait, Laticauda crockeri (Serpentes: Laticaudidae). Journal of Herpetology 21(4): 255-266.

Hoyle, M.A. 1978. Forestry and conservation in the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides. Tigerpaper (Bangkok) 5(2): 21-24.

Slevin, J.R. 1934. The Templeton Crocker Expedition to western Polynesian and Melanesian Islands, 1933. No. 15. Notes on the reptiles and amphibians, with the description of a new species of sea-snake. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Ser. 4) 21: 183-188.

Volsøe, H. 1958. Additional specimens of snakes from Rennell Island. Nat. Hist. Rennell Island (Copenhagen) 1: 227-228.

Laticauda frontalis

Cogger, H.G.; Heatwole, H.F. 2006. Laticauda frontalis (de Vis, 1905) and Laticauda saintgironsi n. sp. from Vanuatu and New Caledonia (Serpentes: Elapidae: Laticaudinae) - a new lineage of Sea Kraits? Records of the Australian Museum 58(2): 245-256.

Kharin, V.E.; Rödel, M.O.; Hallermann, J. 2010. New records and distribution of a little-known sea krait Laticauda frontalis (Devis, 1905) (Serpentes, Laticaudidae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 17(4): 285-289.

Kishida, T.; Hayano, A.; Inoue-Murayama, M.; Hikida, T. 2013. Pairwise comparison of orthologous olfactory receptor genes between two sympatric sibling sea kraits of the genus Laticauda in Vanuatu. Zoological Science (Tokyo) 30(6): 425-431.

Shine, R.; Reed, R.N.; Shetty, S.; Cogger, H.G. 2002. Relationships between sexual dimorphism and niche partitioning within a clade of sea-snakes (Laticaudinae). Oecologia (Berlin) 133(1): 45-53.

Shine, R.; Reed, R.N.; Shetty, S.; LeMaster, M.P.; Mason, R.T. 2002. Reproductive isolating mechanisms between two sympatric sibling species of sea snakes. Evolution 56(8): 1655-1662.

Laticauda guineai

Heatwole, H.; Busack, S.D.; Cogger, H. 2005. Geographic variation in Sea Kraits of the Laticauda colubrina complex (Serpentes: Elapidae: Hydrophiinae: Laticaudini). Herpetological Monographs 19: 1-136.

Laticauda laticaudata

Bacolod, P.T. 1983. Reproductive biology of two sea snakes of the genus Laticauda from central Philippines. Philippine Scientist 20: 39-56.

Bonnet, X.; Brischoux, F. 2008. Thirsty sea snakes forsake refuge during rainfall. Austral Ecology 33(7): 911-921.

Bonnet, X.; Brischoux, F.; Pearson, D.; Rivalan, P. 2009. Beach rock as a keystone habitat for amphibious sea snakes. Environmental Conservation 36(1): 62-70.

Bonnet, X.; Ineich, I.; Shine, R. 2005. Terrestrial locomotion in sea snakes: the effects of sex and species on cliff-climbing ability in Sea Kraits (Serpentes, Elapidae, Laticauda). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 85(4): 433-441.

Brischoux, F.; Bonnet, X. 2008. Estimating the impact of Sea Kraits on the anguilliform fish community (Congridae, Muraenidae, Ophichthidae) of New Caledonia. Aquatic Living Resources 21(4): 395-399.

Brischoux, F.; Bonnet, X. 2009. Life history of Sea Kraits in New Caledonia. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle 198: 133-147.

Brischoux, F.; Bonnet, X.; Cherel, Y.; Shine, R. 2011. Isotopic signatures, foraging habitats and trophic relationships between fish and seasnakes on the coral reefs of New Caledonia. Coral Reefs 30(1): 155-165.

Brischoux, F.; Bonnet, X.; Legagneux, P. 2009. Are sea snakes pertinent bio-indicators for coral reefs? A comparison between species and sites. Marine Biology (Berlin) 156(10): 1985-1992.

Brischoux, F.; Bonnet, X.; Shine, R. 2007. Foraging ecology of Sea Kraits Laticauda spp. in the Neo-Caledonian Lagoon. Marine Ecology Progress Series 350: 145-151.

Brischoux, F.; Bonnet, X.; Shine, R. 2009. Determinants of dietary specialization: a comparison of two sympatric species of sea snakes. Oikos 118(1): 145-151.

Brischoux, F.; Bonnet, X.; Shine, R. 2009. Kleptothermy: an additional category of thermoregulation, and a possible example in Sea Kraits (Laticauda laticaudata, Serpentes). Biology Letters 5(6): 729-731.

Brischoux, F.; Bonnet, X.; Shine, R. 2011. Conflicts between feeding and reproduction in amphibious snakes (sea kraits, Laticauda spp.). Austral Ecology 36(1): 46-52.

Brischoux, F.; Kato, A.; Ropert-Coudert, Y.; Shine, R. 2010. Swimming speed variation in amphibious seasnakes (Laticaudinae): a search for underlying mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 394(1-2): 116-122.

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.

Chen, R.; Lin, W. 1983. A new record of sea snake from Fujian - Laticauda laticaudata (Linnaeus). Acta Herpetologica Sinica 2(2): 75.

Cook, T.R.; Bonnet, X.; Fauvel, T.; Shine, R.; Brischoux, F. 2016. Foraging behaviour and energy budgets of sea snakes: insights from implanted data loggers. Journal of Zoology (London) 298(2): 82-93.

Gill, B.J.; Whitaker, A.H. 2014. Records of sea-kraits (Serpentes: Laticaudidae: Laticauda) in New Zealand. Records of the Auckland Museum 49: 39-42.

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

Ineich, I.; Bonnet, X.; Brischoux, F.; Kulbicki, M.; Seret, B.; Shine, R. 2007. Anguilliform fishes and Sea Kraits: neglected predators in coral-reef ecosystems. Marine Biology (Berlin) 151(2): 793-802.

Klemmer, K. 1967. Observations on the sea-snake Laticauda laticauda in captivity. International Zoo Yearbook 7: 229-231.

Kubota, S.; Tanase, H.; Kishida, T. 2010. [An occurrence of the banded amphibious sea snake Laticauda laticaudata (Elapidae; Hydrophiinae) inshore at Shirahama town, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan]. (In Japanese). Kuroshio 29: 12-13.

Lane, A.; Shine, R. 2011. Intraspecific variation in the direction and degree of sex-biased dispersal among sea-snake populations. Molecular Ecology 20(9): 1870-1876.

Lane, A.M.; Shine, R. 2011. When seasnake meets seabird: ecosystem engineering, facilitation and competition. Austral Ecology 36(5): 544-549.

Lord, C.E.; Scott, H.H. 1924. A Synopsis of the Vertebrate Animals of Tasmania. Oldham, Beddome and Meredith, Hobart. 340 pp.

Lorioux, S.; Bonnet, X.; Brischoux, F.; Crignis, M. de 2008. Is melanism adaptive in Sea Kraits? Amphibia-Reptilia 29(1): 1-5.

Moriguchi, H. 1988. A case of food item of a seasnake, Laticauda laticaudata. The Snake 20(2): 163.

Nontivich, T.; Mitani, S.; Toda, M. 2013. Origins of Laticauda laticaudata and Laticauda semifasciata (Elapidae: Laticaudinae) individuals collected from the main islands of Japan as inferred from molecular data. Current Herpetology 32(2): 135-141.

Park, J.; Koo, K.S.; Kim, I.H.; Choi, W.J.; Park, D. 2017. First record of the Blue-banded Sea Krait (Laticauda laticaudata, Reptilia: Squamata: Elapidae: Laticaudinae) on Jeju Island, South Korea. Asian Herpetological Research 8(2): 131-136.

Rasmussen, A.R. 1989. Sea snakes Thalassophina viperina (Schmidt) and Laticauda laticaudata (Linn.): new records from Phuket Island, Andaman Sea, with remarks on the two subspecies of L. laticaudata. Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society 37(1): 99-103.

Seret, B.; Brischoux, F.; Bonnet, X.; Shine, R. 2008. First record of Cirrimaxilla formosa (Muraenidae) from New Caledonia, found in sea snake stomach contents. Cybium 32(2): 191-192.

Shine, R.; Bonnet, X.; Cogger, H.G. 2003. Antipredator tactics of amphibious sea-snakes (Serpentes, Laticaudidae). Ethology 109(6): 533-542.

Smedley, N.; Boden Kloss, C. 1926. An abnormal, or unnamed, Sea-snake. (Records of the Raffles Museum 18). Journal Malayan Asiat. Soc. Singapore IV 1: 163-164.

Stejneger, L.H. 1936. Types of the amphibian and reptilian genera proposed by Laurenti in 1768. Copeia 1936(3): 133-141.

Suryawan, A.; Yuliantoro, I.; Mayasari, A.; Christita, M. 2017. Identification of Aves, herpetofauna and arthropods in Miangas Island (Indonesia), the borderline of Wallacea ecoregion. Biodiversitas 18(4): 1528-1537

Tabata, R.; Tashiro, F.; Nishizawa, H.; Takagi, J.; Kidera, N.; Mitamura, H. 2017. Stomach contents of three Sea Kraits (Hydrophiinae: Laticauda spp.) in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Current Herpetology 36(2): 127-134

Tyabji, Z.; Mohanty, N.P.; Young, E.; Khan, T. 2018. The terrestrial life of sea kraits: insights from a long-term study on two Laticauda species (Reptilia: Squamata: Elapidae) in the Andaman Islands, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 10(11): 12443–12450.

Wang, S.; Lillywhite, H.B.; Cheng, Y.C.; Tu, M.C. 2013. Variation of traits and habitat use in three species of sea kraits in Taiwan. Journal of Zoology (London) 290(1): 19-26.

Wang, S.; Lillywhite, H.B.; Tu, M.C. 2013. Locomotor performance of three sympatric species of sea kraits (Laticauda spp.) from Orchid Island, Taiwan. Zoological Studies 52: 43.

Laticauda saintgironsi

Bonnet, X.; Brischoux, F. 2008. Thirsty sea snakes forsake refuge during rainfall. Austral Ecology 33(7): 911-921.

Bonnet, X.; Brischoux, F.; Bonnet, C.; Plichon, P.; Fauvel, T. 2014. Coastal nurseries and their importance for conservation of sea kraits. PLoS ONE 9(3): e90246.

Bonnet, X.; Brischoux, F.; Pearson, D.; Rivalan, P. 2009. Beach rock as a keystone habitat for amphibious sea snakes. Environmental Conservation 36(1): 62-70.

Bonnet, X.; Brischoux, F.; Pinaud, D.; Michel, C.L.; Clobert, J.; Shine, R.; Fauvel, T. 2015. Spatial variation in age structure among colonies of a marine snake: the influence of ectothermy. Journal of Animal Ecology 84(4): 925-933.

Brischoux, F.; Bonnet, X. 2008. Estimating the impact of Sea Kraits on the anguilliform fish community (Congridae, Muraenidae, Ophichthidae) of New Caledonia. Aquatic Living Resources 21(4): 395-399.

Brischoux, F.; Bonnet, X. 2009. Life history of Sea Kraits in New Caledonia. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle 198: 133-147.

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