Boiga cyanea (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril)

Stuart Ko Sok Thy Neang, Bryan L., 2006, A Collection Of Amphibians And Reptiles From Hilly Eastern Cambodia, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 54 (1), pp. 129-155 : 149

Boiga cyanea (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril)

Material examined. – Keo Seima: FMNH 259177 , on road through disturbed evergreen mixed with deciduous forest, 150 m elev., coll. J. Walston and P. Davidson, May.2000 .

O’Rang: FMNH 263014 , hilly evergreen forest along O Rokhlong Stream, near 12°18'35.3"N 107°04'28.0"E, 500 m elev., 12 Dec.2003 .

Remarks. – A male (FMNH 263014) has 21 scale rows at mid-body; enlarged vertebral scales; 257 ventral scale rows; and 124 subcaudal scale rows. FMNH 259177 is an incomplete specimen consisting of only the head and the anterior two head-lengths of the body. Both specimens have eight supralabials; 10 infralabials; one preocular; and two postoculars.

In life, FMNH 263014 had a green dorsum and venter; white chin with baby-blue infralabials; and bluish-white marbling on some anterior ventrals.

Remarks. – A single female closely agrees with Günther’s (1875) original description. The specimen has 17 scale rows at mid-body; the median four dorsal scale rows feebly keeled; 202 ventral scale rows; 80 subcaudal scale rows; an undivided anal scale; loreal longer than deep; one preocular and two postoculars; eight supralabials, the third, fourth and fifth entering the orbit; black trunk with 26 white bands on the body, approximately 1-1.5 dorsal scale rows wide along the vertebral row at midbody, the first at about ventral scale row 23; 15 white bands on the tail; dark bands on posterior half of venter, subcaudals marbled with black.

The specimen was taken at night (2005 hrs.) crawling on a 1 m diameter fallen tree, 2.2 m above a 3 m wide stream.

This is the first report of the species from Cambodia.