Checklist of Sea snakes of India.

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P. Padmanaban and C. Venkatraman (Marine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Chennai- 600 028), and, Muhamed Jafer Palot and C. Radhakrishnan (Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Calicut- 673 006).

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http://zsi.gov.in/checklist/India%20Sea%20Snake.pdf

Checklist Details

Checklist Info -
Sea snakes are the most successful marine reptiles inhabiting the warm tropical waters of the world. There are 70 species of sea snakes belonging to 5 sub-families inhabiting the world's oceans and estuaries. The checklist includes the 22 of these species, belonging to 3 families and 3 sub-families, that have been documented from Indian waters.

Checklist Stats -
Number of species: 22.

Checklist
s.no. family sub_family genus genus_author scientific_name species_author common_name
1 HYDROPHIIDAE HYDROPHIINAE (True Sea Snakes) Astrotia Fischer 1856 Astrotia stokesii (Gray, 1846) Stokes Sea Snake/ Large Headed Sea Snake
2 HYDROPHIIDAE HYDROPHIINAE (True Sea Snakes) Enhydrina Gray 1849 Enhydrina schistosa (Daudin, 1803) Common Sea Snake/ Hook-nosed Sea Snake/ Beaked Sea Snake
3 HYDROPHIIDAE HYDROPHIINAE (True Sea Snakes) Hydrophis Latreille 1802 Hydrophis caerulescens (Shaw, 1802) Many-toothed Sea Snake/ Malacca Sea Snake/ Blue Sea Snake
4 HYDROPHIIDAE HYDROPHIINAE (True Sea Snakes) Hydrophis Latreille 1803 Hydrophis stricticollis (Gunther, 1864) Gunther’s Sea Snake/ Bengal Sea Snake/ Collared or Narrow-necked Sea Snake
5 HYDROPHIIDAE HYDROPHIINAE (True Sea Snakes) Hydrophis Latreille 1804 Hydrophis cyanocinctus Daudin, 1803 Chittul or Annulated Sea Snake/ Blue-banded Sea Snake
6 HYDROPHIIDAE HYDROPHIINAE (True Sea Snakes) Hydrophis Latreille 1805 Hydrophis fasciatus (Schneider, 1799) Banded Sea Snake/ Striped Sea Snake
7 HYDROPHIIDAE HYDROPHIINAE (True Sea Snakes) Hydrophis Latreille 1806 Hydrophis lapemoides (Gray, 1849) Persian Gulf Sea Snake
8 HYDROPHIIDAE HYDROPHIINAE (True Sea Snakes) Hydrophis Latreille 1807 Hydrophis mamillaris (Daudin, 1803) Bombay Gulf Sea Snake/ Bombay Broad-banded Sea Snake
9 HYDROPHIIDAE HYDROPHIINAE (True Sea Snakes) Hydrophis Latreille 1808 Hydrophis nigrocinctus Daudin, 1803 Daudin’s Sea Snake / Black-banded Sea Snake
10 HYDROPHIIDAE HYDROPHIINAE (True Sea Snakes) Hydrophis Latreille 1809 Hydrophis obscurus (Daudin,1803) Estuarine Sea Snake
11 HYDROPHIIDAE HYDROPHIINAE (True Sea Snakes) Hydrophis Latreille 1810 Hydrophis oranatus (Gray, 1842) Gray’s Sea Snake/ Cochin Banded Sea Snake/ Ornate Sea Snake
12 HYDROPHIIDAE HYDROPHIINAE (True Sea Snakes) Hydrophis Latreille 1811 Hydrophis spiralis (Shaw, 1802) Yellow Sea Snake
13 HYDROPHIIDAE HYDROPHIINAE (True Sea Snakes) Hydrophis Latreille 1812 Hydrophis gracilis (Shaw, 1802) Common Small-headed Sea Snake
14 HYDROPHIIDAE HYDROPHIINAE (True Sea Snakes) Hydrophis Latreille 1813 Hydrophis cantoris Gunther, 1864 Cantor’s Narrow-headed Sea Snake
15 HYDROPHIIDAE HYDROPHIINAE (True Sea Snakes) Kerilia Gray 1849 Kerilia jerdonii (Gray,1849) Jerdon’s Sea Snake
16 HYDROPHIIDAE HYDROPHIINAE (True Sea Snakes) Lapemis Gray 1835 Lapemis curtus (Shaw, 1802) Shaw’s Sea Snake/ Short Sea Snake
17 HYDROPHIIDAE HYDROPHIINAE (True Sea Snakes) Pelamis Daudin 1803 Pelamis platurus (Linnaeus, 1766) Yellow-bellied Sea Snake/ Pelagic Sea Snake/ Black& Yellow Sea Snake
18 HYDROPHIIDAE HYDROPHIINAE (True Sea Snakes) Praescutata Wall 1921 Praescutata viperina (Schmidt, 1852) Viperine Sea Snake/ Olive Sea Snake
19 HYDROPHIIDAE LATICAUDINAE (Amphibious Sea Snakes / Sea Kraits) Laticauda Laurenti 1768 Laticauda colubrina (Schneider,1799) Yellow-lipped Sea Krait/ Colubrine Amphibious Sea Snake.
20 HYDROPHIIDAE LATICAUDINAE (Amphibious Sea Snakes / Sea Kraits) Laticauda Laurenti 1769 Laticauda laticaudata (Linnaeus, 1758) Banded Sea Krait/ Common Sea Krait
21 ACROCHORDIDAE (File Snakes) Acrochordus Hornstedt 1787 Acrochordus granulatus (Schneider, 1799) File Sea Snake/ Elephant trunk Snake/ Indian Wart Snake
22 COLUBRIDAE HOMALOPSINAE (Mud Snakes) Cerberus Cuvier 1829 Cerberus rynchops (Schneider, 1799) Dog-faced Water Snake/ Bockadam
References

For more on sea snakes, refer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophiinae.