Polypedates leucomystax ( Gravenhorst, 1829 )

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 : 798

Polypedates leucomystax ( Gravenhorst, 1829)

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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 2446 • same locality; 24.IX.2018; Evan S. H. Quah, Hong Zijia leg.; 1 ♂, USMHC 2458 .

Identification and natural history. Two adult males ( USMHC 2446, SVL 51 mm; USMHC 2458, SVL 46 mm) matched Berry’s (1975) and Grismer’s (2011a) description in having a slender, medium-sized body; broad head; rounded and projecting snout; distinct tympanum; long, slender hind limbs; round disks with circum-marginal grooves on the tips of digits; fully webbed toes; lack of webbing on fingers; an oval inner metatarsal tubercle; no outer metatarsal tubercle; supratympanic fold present from eye to shoulder; dark longitudinal line below

supratympanic fold; smooth skin; variable colour pattern from light to dark tan, with or without four dark, narrow vertebral stripes; dark cross-bars on limbs and whitish belly and chest. Both specimens were found around puddles by trail at night.

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