棘鳞海蛇属

棘鳞海蛇属（学名：Astrotia）是蛇亚目海蛇科下的一种有毒单型蛇属，属下只有棘鳞海蛇（Astrotia stokesii）一种海蛇，主要分布于中国广东及台湾两岸的南中国海、澳洲等海域。

地理分布

棘鳞海蛇主要分布于中台两岸、印度西部沿岸、斯里兰卡、泰国湾、马来西亚、越南等海岸地区，与及菲律宾群岛等东南亚海域。另外亦分布于印尼、新几内亚的海岸。

Cogger,H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp.
Dunson, William A.;Minton, Sherman A. 1978. Diversity, distribution, and Ecology of Philippine Marine Snakes (Reptilia, Serpentes) Journal of Herpetology 12 (3): 281-286
Fischer, J.G. 1856. Die Familie der Seeschlangen. Abhandl. Nat. Ver. Hamburg 3: 1-78
Grandison, A. G. C. 1978. Snakes of West Malaysia and Singapore. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 81 [1977]：283-303

Gray, J. E. 1846. in: Stoke's Discov. Austral. 1: 502

Kharin, V. E. 2006. An Annotated Checklist of Sea Snakes of Vietnam, with Notes on a New Record of the Yellow-Lipped Sea Krait, Laticauda colubrina (Schneider, 1799)(Laticaudidae, Hydrophiidae). Russian Journal of Marine Biology 32 (4): 223–228.
Mao, Shou-Hsian;Chen, Been-Yuan 1975. Disteira stokesi (Gray): an addition to the sea snake fauna of Taiwan Herpetologica 31 (4): 456-458
Murray,J.A. 1887. Descriptions of three new species of Hydrophis from the Bombay harbour and the Mekran coast. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 2: 32-35
Rasmussen,A.R. 1997. Systematics of sea snakes: a critical review. In: Thorpe,R.S., Wüster,W. & Malhotra,A. (eds.) Venomous snakes - ecology, evolution and snakebite. Clarendon Press (Oxford)/Symp. zool. Soc. Lond. 70: 15-30
Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-Region. Reptilia and Amphibia. 3 (Serpentes). Taylor and Francis, London. 583 pp.
Wall, FRANK 1921. Ophidia Taprobanica or the Snakes of Ceylon. Colombo Mus. (H. R. Cottle, govt. printer), Colombo. xxii, 581 pages
Zhao,E. & Adler,K. 1993. Herpetology of China. SSAR, Oxford/Ohio, 1-522