Gonyosoma oxycephalum ( Boie, 1827 )

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 : 801-802

Gonyosoma oxycephalum ( Boie, 1827)

Figure 6B

Materials examined. MALAYSIA – Kedah • Batu Hampar Recreational Forest ; 05.1966°N, 100.5827°E; 40 m a.s.l.; 24.IX.2018; Evan S. H. Quah, Hong Zijia leg.; 1 ♂, USMHC 2473 .

Identification and natural history. One adult male ( SVL 608 mm, TL 192 mm) matched Tweedie’s (1983)

and Das’s (2015) diagnosis in having a slender, elongated and compressed body; head distinct from neck; elongated snout; single preocular; two postoculars; loreal present; 9–11 supralabials, where the 6th and 7th touches the eye; 12–14 infralabials; large eye; rounded pupil; long and tapering tail; smooth dorsals; 25 midbody scale rows; 230–263 ventrals; 120–157 paired subcaudals; anal scale divided; light green dorsum and throat; black stripe along sides of head, from nostril, across eye, to above level of upper jaw; grey to reddish-brown tail and yellowish venter. The specimen was found sleeping on tree 4 m off the ground at night.