Hydrophis anomalus

Hydrophis anomalus, known as the anomalous sea snake, is a species of sea snake in the genus Hydrophis, which was described by Philipp Schmidt in 1852 in a paper on sea snakes published in the journal of the natural history society of Hamburg. The available account of the species is short. It states that the range of the snake includes the South China Sea, with records from Malaysia and the Gulf of Thailand, and the Indian Ocean, with records from Sumatra, Java and Borneo. Beyond its distribution and the original description, the source article gives no details of its size, colour, diet, breeding or conservation status, so this entry records only what is established and leaves those facts to be added when a source that states them is read.