Hypsilurus dilophus ( Duméril & Bibron, 1837 )

Karin, Benjamin R., Stubbs, Alexander L., Arifin, Umilaela, Bloch, Luke M., Ramadhan, G., Iskandar, Djoko T., Arida, Evy, Reilly, Sean B., Kusnadi, Agus & Mcguire, Jimmy A., 2018, The herpetofauna of the Kei Islands (Maluku, Indonesia): Comprehensive report on new and historical collections, biogeographic patterns, conservation concerns, and an annotated checklist of species from Kei Kecil, Kei Besar, Tam, and Kur, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 66, pp. 704-738 : 734

Hypsilurus dilophus ( Duméril & Bibron, 1837)

We did not collect specimens nor find any evidence of the presence of this large and conspicuous agamid on any of the islands surveyed. de Rooij (1915, p. 109) listed this species as present, though it is possible she incorrectly interpreted Roux’s (1910) remark that the Aru Islands had three species of Gonocephalus [= Hypsilurus ] including Hypsilurus dilophus while the Kei Islands had only the Agamid Physignathus [= Lophognathus ] temporalis . Since we too found no presence of Hypsilurus on the Kei Islands, and no other record exists, we consider it unlikely that this species is present on the Kei Islands.