Biology:Crocker's sea snake
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Elapidae |
| Genus: | Laticauda |
| Species: | L. crockeri
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| Binomial name | |
| Laticauda crockeri Slevin, 1934
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Crocker's sea snake (Laticauda crockeri) is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Laticaudinae of the family Elapidae. The species is native to Oceania.
Etymology
The specific name, crockeri, is in honor of American railroad magnate Charles Templeton Crocker (1885-1948), who allowed the California Academy of Sciences to use his yacht, the Zaca, for scientific expeditions.[1]
Geographic range
L. crockeri is endemic to Lake Te-Nggano, a brackish lake on Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands.[2]
Description
L. crockeri is sexually dimorphic, with females growing to be longer and heavier than males.[3] Females may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 80 cm (31 in), but males may attain only 62 cm (24 in) in SVL.[4] Maximum tail length is about 9 cm (3.5 in) in both sexes.[4]
Conservation status
L. crockeri is currently listed as "Vulnerable" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) due to the extremely limited distribution of the species.[3]
References
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN:978-1-4214-0135-5. (Laticauda crockeri, p. 61).
- ↑ 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. ISSN 1174-9202.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namediucn status 16 November 2021 - ↑ 4.0 4.1 Species Laticauda crockeri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
- Slevin JR (1934). "The Templeton Crocker Expedition to Western Polynesian and Melanesian Islands, 1933. Notes on the Reptiles and Amphibians, with the Description of a New Species of Sea-snake". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 21 (15) 183–188. (Laticauda crockeri, new species, p. 186).
Wikidata ☰ Q2382974 entry
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