Gonyosoma oxycephalum (Boie, 1827)

Teynié, Alexandre, David, Patrick & Ohler, Annemarie, 2010, Note on a collection of Amphibians and Reptiles from Western Sumatra (Indonesia), with the description of a new species of the genus Bufo, Zootaxa 2416, pp. 1-43 : 21-22

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.194395

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6198002

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scientific name

Gonyosoma oxycephalum (Boie, 1827)
status

 

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Material examined. A specimen examined alive and photographed, vicinity East of Pundung Lamanggang, Jambi Province.

Taxonomic comments. A typical specimen of the green morph as described in Schulz (1996). Distribution on Sumatra. Provinces of Aceh, Sumatera Utara, Sumatera Barat, Riau, Jambi, Bengkulu, Sumatera Selatan, and Lampung; also the islands of Bangka, Belitung, and Nias, and Mentawai Archipelago and Riau Archipelago ( David & Vogel, 1996).

Biology. This adult was observed at day time in November on the edge of a road in a secondary forest.

David, P. & Vogel, G. (1996) The Snakes of Sumatra. An annotated checklist and key with natural history notes. Ed. Chimaira, Frankfurt-am-Main, 260 pp.

Schulz, K. - D. (1996) A monograph of the colubrid Snakes of the Genus Elaphe Fitzinger. Koeltz Scientific Books, Wurselen (Germany), iii + 439 pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Colubridae

Genus

Gonyosoma