A New Species Of Gongylosoma (Squamata: Colubridae) From Pulau Tioman, West Malaysia
A new species of Gongylosoma is described from Pulau Tioman, a small island 38 km off the southeast coast of Pahang, West Malaysia, in the South China Sea. This species differs from all other Gongylosoma in having a single, enlarged, posterior temporal; chinshields of equal size; and a thin nuchal b...
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The Herpetologists’ League, Inc.
2003
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/24896/1/243-%20Grismer%20et%20al.%20%28Gongylosoma%20mukutense%29.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/24896/ https://www.hljournals.org/ |
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| Summary: | A new species of Gongylosoma is described from Pulau Tioman, a small island 38 km off the southeast coast of Pahang, West Malaysia, in the South China Sea. This species differs from all other Gongylosoma in having a single, enlarged, posterior temporal; chinshields of equal size; and a thin nuchal band that contacts a vestigial vertebral stripe. The new species forms a clade with G. nicobariense from the Nicobar Islands and G. longicauda from Borneo, Java, and Sumatra and is the sister species of the latter. |
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