Bungarus candidus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Erroneous.

Malayan Krait

Singapore records.

Bungarus candidus —Sharma, 1973: 235.—Chou, 1986: 8, 13.—F.L.K. Lim & Lee, 1989: 116.— Gopalakrishnakone, 1990: 3.—K.K.P. Lim & L.M. Chou, 1990: 54.—F.L.K. Lim, 1991: 74.— K.K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 1992: 87, 148.—L.M. Chou et al., 1994: 105.— David & Vogel, 1996: 143.— Manthey & Grossmann, 1997: 416.—Chan-ard et al., 1999: 37.— Iskandar & Colijn, 2001: 119.—K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 2002: 148.— de Lang & Vogel, 2005: 259.—N. Baker & K.P. Lim, 2008: 169.— Das, 2010: 313.— Chanhome et al., 2011: 314.—P.K.L. Ng et al., 2011: 302.—N. Baker & K.P. Lim, 2012: 169.— Das, 2012a: 88.— Mohammadi et al., 2014: 21.—Wallach et al., 2014: 128.—Chan-ard et al., 2015: 250.— de Lang, 2017: 238.— Cox et al., 2018: 50.— Das, 2018: 105.—Y. Xie et al., 2018: 109.— Grahadi et al., 2022: 1047, 1049, 1052.

“Malayan krait”—Mong & H.H. Tan, 2016: 266.

Remarks. All of the publications listed in the chresynonymy report B. candidus as occurring in Singapore but none list any material or specific source for the record. We have also not been able to find any earlier references to B. candidus from Singapore and no specimens exist in museum collections. We suspect inclusion of B. candidus into Singapore’s herpetofauna checklist may stem from confusion with B. fasciatus . A piece of shed skin found at Pulau Tekong in 2002 is said to be of B. candidus, but was not confirmed (K.K.P. Lim unpub. data). Bungarus candidus is distributed from Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam south to Peninsular Malaysia, and Bawean, Bali, Java, Karimunjawa, and Sumatra in Indonesia (Wallach et al. 2014).

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. Pulau Tekong: ZRC.2.5485 (02-Jul-2002).

Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.