Aplopeltura boa ( Boie, 1828 )

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 : 803

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/17.3.791

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E82187EC-D748-9D50-FC96-FCB611545384

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Marcus

scientific name

Aplopeltura boa ( Boie, 1828 )
status

 

Aplopeltura boa ( Boie, 1828)

Figure 6F

Materials examined. MALAYSIA – Kedah • Batu Hampar Recreational Forest ; 05.1966°N, 100.5827°E; 40 m a.s.l.; 8.X.2018; Evan S. H. Quah, Hong Zijia leg.; 1 juvenile, USMHC 2481 GoogleMaps .

Identification and natural history. One juvenile ( SVL 197 mm, TL 95 mm) matched Tweedie’s (1983) and Das’s (2015) diagnosis in having a slender and laterally compressed body; short and rounded head, distinct from the neck; two preoculars; two postoculars; 2–3 loreals; 8–10 supralabials which are separated by a row of subocular scales from the eye; 11 infralabials; large eye, where the diameter of orbit is longer than snout length; smooth dorsals; 13 midbody scale rows; 148–191 ventrals; 88–131 undivided subcaudals; anal scale entire; greyish-brown dorsum; large cream spots on flanks; dark brown fore- head; cream labials; cream patch under eye with dark subtriangular area and dark grey venter. The specimen was found crawling on ferns by trail at night.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Pareatidae

Genus

Aplopeltura

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