Bungarus candidus ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

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

Bungarus candidus ( Linnaeus, 1758)

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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 leg.; 1 ♂, USMHC 2453 • same locality; 19.X.2018; Evan S. H. Quah, Hong Zijia leg.; 1 ♀, USMHC 2483 .

Identification and natural history. One adult male ( USMHC 2453, SVL 790 mm, TL 110 mm) and one adult female ( USMHC 2483, SVL 792 mm, TL 70 mm) matched Tweedie’s (1983) and Das’s (2015) diagnosis in having a robust body; head indistinct from neck; single preocular; two postoculars; loreal absent; seven supralabials, where the 3rd and 4th touches the eye; seven infralabials; small eye; rounded pupil; short tail; smooth dorsals; 15 midbody scale rows; 194–237 ventrals; 37– 56 single subcaudals; anal scale entire; black dorsum with broad white cross bars on body and tail, where the black interspaces are much wider than the white bands anteriorly, slightly wider or equal posteriorly and on the tail; white bands scattered with black spots; supralabials and venter white and immaculate and dark brown spots on subcaudals. USMHC 2453 was found crawling along puddle by trail while USMHC 2483 was found in the leaf litter along trail, eating a skink, Eutropis multifasciata (USMHC 2484) at night.