Pareas margaritophorus (Jan, 1866)

Grismer, L. Lee, Neang, Thy, Chav, Thou, Wood, Perry L., Jr & Oaks, Jamie R., 2008, Additional Amphibians And Reptiles From The Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary In Northwestern Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia, With Comments On Their Taxonomy And The Discovery Of Three New Species, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56 (1), pp. 161-175 : 172-173

Pareas margaritophorus (Jan, 1866)

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Material examined. – LSUHC 7880 : Camp 1, 6 Aug.2006 .

Material examined. – A juvenile female ( SVL 285 mm) matches Grossmann & Tillack’s (2003) characterization of the genus and Smith’s (1943) description of the species in having a single preocular; the supralabials being prevented from contacting the eye by suboculars; lacking a single, median inframaxillary but having three pairs of inframaxillaries instead; 149 ventrals; 38 undivided subcaudals; 15 rows of smooth dorsal sacles at midbody lacking an enlarged vertebral row; the head being distinct from the neck; body not laterally compressed; dorsal scales grey, edged in black; series of transversely aligned black spots occasionally edged in white extending from neck to base of tail; and black nuchal band divided by a tripartite orange band. This specimen is in accord with a specimen collected from Phnom Aural in the northeastern Cardamoms in Kampong Speu Province ( LSUHC 7463; Grismer et al., 2007a) and with a specimen from Siem Pang in Stung Treng Province in northeastern Cambodia ( FMNH 263022; Stuart et al., 2006).

The specimen was found crawling near the base of a tree at 0500 hours.

Figures

Fig. 20. Pareas margaritophorus from Camp 1.