Dendrelaphis striatus (Cohn, 1905)

Syafiq, Muhamad Fatihah, Badli-Sham, Baizul Hafsyam, Grismer, Larry Lee & Ahmad, Amirrudin B., 2023, Uneven species occurrence and richness of lowland snakes (Serpentes, Squamata) in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia, with new locality records, ZooKeys 1168, pp. 11-39 : 11

Dendrelaphis striatus (Cohn, 1905)

Natural history notes.

This species can be identified by its slender body; head bronze-brown in color; thick black stripe extending from the snout passing through the eye and ending at the neck region; neck yellow when inflated; body yellow at the anterior and blue at the posterior with oblique black band. The species was found sleeping during night (~ 2100 hr) on the ornamental tree near the Sekayu Recreational Forest authority’s office.

Distribution.

This species is widely distributed in Peninsular Malaysia ( MyBis 2021) but there is no record of occurrence of this species specifically from Terengganu state in any published documentation to our knowledge.