Hydrophis [Leioselasma] coggeri Kharin, 1984 Cogger’s Sea Snake; Pacific Yellow-banded Sea Snake; Slender-necked Sea Snake Leioselasma coggeri Kharin, 1984a:1538, fig. b.— David and Ineich, 1999:107.— Rasmussen, 2001:4002, figs.— Wallach, Williams, and Boundy, 2014:358. Hydrophis coggeri, Leviton, Brown, and Siler, 2014:504. TYPE LOCALITY AND TYPE SPECIMEN (S).— Port Suva, Fiji Ids. Holotype ZISP 19681. PHILIPPINE DISTRIBUTION.— said to occur in the Philippines (Rasmussen [2001:4002] and distribution map; also Zug [2013:229]) but most likely H. melanocephalus (see Rasmussen et al. [2011:6]). GENERAL DISTRIBUTION (OTHER THAN PHILIPPINES).— north coast of Australia, New Caledonia, east to Vanuatu and Fiji. CONSERVATION STATUS [IUCN].— Least Concern [2016] ver. 3.1.

Published as part of Leviton, Alan E., Siler, Cameron D., Weinell, Jeffrey L. & Brown, Rafe M., 2018, Synopsis of the Snakes of the Philippines A Synthesis of Data from Biodiversity Repositories, Field Studies, and the Literature, pp. 399-568 in Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Oxford, England) (Oxford, England) 64 (14) on page 461, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11512589