• <i>Hydrophis nigrocinctus</i> DAUDIN 1803: 380<br>
• <i>Hydrophis nigro-cinctus</i> DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854: 1350<br>

• <i>Hydrophis nigrocincta</i> FISCHER 1856: 46<br>

• <i>Melanomystax nigrocinctus</i> WALL 1921: 383<br>

• <i>Hydrophis nigrocinctus</i> SMITH 1943: 452<br>

• <i>Disteira walli</i> KHARIN 1989<br>

• <i>Disteira nigrocincta</i> WELCH 1994: 55<br>

• <i>Hydrophis nigrocinctus</i> DAS 1996: 61<br>

• <i>Disteira nigrocinctus</i> RASMUSSEN 1997<br>

• <i>Disteira nigrocincta</i> HEATWOLE 1999: 131<br>

• <i>Hydrophis nigrocinctus</i> SHARMA 2004<br>

• <i>Disteira walli</i> KHARIN 2005<br>

• <i>Disteira nigrocincta</i> KHARIN 2005<br>

• <i>Hydrophis nigrocinctus</i> RASMUSSEN <i>et al</i>. 2011<br><br>

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Mental scute is large but not concealed in mental groove. 1–3 maxillary teeth behind fangs and 7–9 palatine teeth are present which are similar in size to ptergyoid teeth. This snake has head with yellow supraorbital stripe surrounding a blackish crown patch that extends forward to prefrontals. Olive to brown above with 40 to 60 narrow dark annuli and yellowish below. 27–33 scale rows are around neck, 39–45 around midbody, imbricate and keeled. Ventrals are 296–330, distinct throughout but not twice as large as adjacent scales and preanal scales enlarged (There is no photograph found anywhere of this snake species).

Very little is known about this species. There is no information found about the habitat type of this snake.

Behavior of this snake species is probably very similar to Hydrophis gracilis. They are both diurnal and nocturnal.

Not well known, but probably its venom contain potent neurotoxins and myotoxins. Very few human bites or envenomations, no fatalities reported.