Aipysurus duboisii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Elapoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Elapoidea

Familia: Elapidae
Subfamilia: Hydrophiinae
Genus: Aipysurus
Species: Aipysurus duboisii

Name

Aipysurus duboisii Bavay, 1869: 33

• Holotype: MMBR, ♂. [lost fide McCarthy in Golay et al. (1993: 222)]
• Type locality: “L’ile Lifou, Nouvelle-Calédonie [= Lifou Island, New Caledonia]”.

Synonyms

• Pelagophis lubricus Peters & Doria, 1878: 414
  • Holotype: MSNG 30765, collected by L.M. D'Albertis in 1875.
  • Type locality: “Nova Guinea austro-orientalis (Isola Yule)” [Yule Island, Central Province, Papua New Guinea].

References

Primary references

• Bavay, A. 1869. Catalogue des Reptiles de las Nouvelle-Calédonie et description d'especes nouvelles. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie 15: 1–37. Reference page. 
• Peters, W. & Doria, G. 1878. Catalogo dei retilli e dei batraci raccolti da O. Beccari, L. M. D'Alberts e A. A. Bruijn nella sotto-regione Austro-Malese (In Italian). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 13: 323–450. BHL Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2025. Aipysurus duboisii. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 26 March 2020.
• Lukoschek, V., Guinea, M., Milton, D., Courtney, T. & Fletcher, E. 2010. IUCN: Aipysurus duboisii  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T176748A7296594. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T176748A7296594.en

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Dubois’ Seeschlange
English: Reef Shallows Sea Snake