Published December 6, 2019 | Version v1
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Pareas carinatus

Description

Pareas carinatus (Boie, 1828)

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Materials examined. Seroja Camp (04°39.415′N, 101° 16.333′E), 4 July 2019 (GKR009).

Identification. Body relatively short, robust; snout short, blunt; eyes large; vertebral scales slightly enlarged and keeled; body coloration light brown to tan; thin, black postorbital stripe extends and broadens to nape forming a black patch; small, irregular dark patches along vertebral column and flanks; iris gold. These characters are in agreement with Tweedie (1983).

Remarks. A single individual was found on a fern frond approximately 7 m from ground.

Notes

Published as part of Chan, Kin Onn, Muin, Mohd Abdul, Anuar, Shahrul, Andam, Joel, Razak, Norazlinda & Aziz, Mohd Azizol, 2019, First checklist on the amphibians and reptiles of Mount Korbu, the second highest peak in Peninsular Malaysia, pp. 1055-1069 in Check List 15 (6) on page 1066, DOI: 10.15560/15.6.1055

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Pareatidae
Genus
Pareas
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Squamata
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Boie
Species
carinatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pareas carinatus (Boie, 1828) sec. Chan, Muin, Anuar, Andam, Razak & Aziz, 2019

References

  • Tweedie MWF (1983) The snakes of Malaya, 3 rd editiom. Singapore National Printers, Singapore, 167 pp.