Boiga cynodon (Boie, 1827)

Teynié, Alexandre, David, Patrick & Ohler, Annemarie, 2010, Note on a collection of Amphibians and Reptiles from Western Sumatra (Indonesia), with the description of a new species of the genus Bufo, Zootaxa 2416, pp. 1-43 : 19-20

Boiga cynodon (Boie, 1827) *

( Fig. 6 b)

Material examined. A large adult (ToL> 2.30 m), photographed in captivity, stated as coming from the southern shore of Lake Maninjau, Province of Sumatera Barat.

Taxonomic comments. This Indomalayan species is monotypic. Populations from regions located north of southern Peninsular Thailand should now be named Boiga siamensis Nootpand, 1971 ( Pauwels et al., 2005) .

Distribution on Sumatra. Provinces of Sumatera Barat (first record in this work), and Aceh, Sumatera Utara, Riau, Bengkulu, and Sumatera Selatan; also the islands of Bangka and Belitung, and Mentawai Archipelago and Riau Archipelago ( David & Vogel, 1996).

Biology. This specimen was said to come from a forest.

Figures

FIGURE 6. (a) Broghammerus reticulatus (Schneider, 1801). Juvenile specimen not collected; (b) Boiga cynodon (Boie, 1827). Large adult, not collected; view of the head; (c) Dendrelaphis caudolineatus caudolineatus (Gray, 1835). MHLCLFE C 167, adult male; (d) Dendrelaphis pictus pictus (Gmelin, 1789). One of the three adult specimens; (e) Pseudorabdion eiselti Inger & Leviton, 1961. MNHN 2002.0438, adult male; (f) Xenocrophis trianguligerus (Boie, 1827). Specimen not preserved.