Title
Rediscovery of the Yellow-bellied Sea Snake, Hydrophis platurus (Linnaeus, 1766) in Máncora, northern Perú
Date Issued
01 January 2014
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Centro de Referencia em Informacao Ambiental
Abstract
The presence of the Yellow-bellied Sea Snake (Hydrophis platurus) in the Southeast Pacific is rarely reported, with only one confirmed observation from northern Perú made in the early 1950s. We present new information based on a live-stranded specimen recently found in Peruvian waters, having washed ashore at Máncora (04.1255° S, 81.0958° W) in northern Perú on 12 July 2012. This stranding was associated with a Modoki El Niño warm event, since positive sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies up to 2.5°C were registered at this time.
Start page
1563
End page
1564
Volume
10
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología marina, Biología de agua dulce, Limnología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84923117166
Source
Check List
ISSN of the container
1809127X
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus