Boiga melanota ( Boulenger, 1896 )

Zijia, Hong, Anuar, Shahrul, Grismer, L. Lee & Quah, Evan S. H., 2021, Preliminary report on the herpetofaunal diversity of Batu Hampar Recreational Forest, Kedah, Malaysia, Check List 17 (3), pp. 791-814 : 801

Boiga melanota ( Boulenger, 1896)

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Materials examined. MALAYSIA – Kedah • Batu Hampar Recreational Forest ; 05.1966°N, 100.5827°E; 40 m a.s.l.; 23.IX.2018; Evan S. H. Quah, Hong Zijia obs.; USMHC 2475 • same locality; 8.X.2018; Evan S. H. Quah, Hong Zijia leg.; 1 ♂, USMHC 2482 .

Identification and natural history. One adult male ( SVL 1015 mm, TL 259 mm) matched Tweedie’s (1983) and Weinell et al.’s (2020) diagnosis in having a large, robust and laterally compressed body; head distinct from neck; short and rounded snout; single preocular; two postoculars; loreal present; eight supralabials, where the 3rd to 5th touches the eye; 11–12 infralabials; large eye; vertical pupil; smooth dorsals; 21 midbody scale rows; 202–253 ventrals; 89–118 paired subcaudals; anal scale entire; black dorsum with 21–46 yellow bands on body which do not meet mid-dorsally; labials and gular region yellow and venter grey. The specimen was found crawling on the ground along trail at night. Another specimen was observed crawling through low vegetation along stream bank at night on 23 September 2018 and a tail clipping was taken ( USMHC 2475).