Abstract
We report recent observations, two new locality records and an updated overview of the distribution of Dopasia buettikoferi (Lidth de Jeude, 1905) from Borneo, as well as photographic documentation of this species showing colouration and patterns in living individuals and the holotype. This note represents the first complete compilation of distributional knowledge of this rarely-encountered member of the family Anguidae.
Highlights
Two new locality records and an updated overview of the distribution of Dopasia buettikoferi (Lidth de Jeude, 1905) from Borneo, as well as photographic documentation of this species showing colouration and patterns in living individuals and the holotype
The genus Dopasia Gray, 1853 is one of the least known amongst the herpetofauna of south-east Asia (Brygoo 1987; Lin et al 2003; Nguyen et al 2011; Lavin and Girman 2019)
According to Uetz et al (2019), the genus consists of seven species, distributed from northern India, through southeast Asia to Indonesia (Sumatra) and Malaysia (Borneo): D. buettikoferi (Lidth de Jeude, 1905), D. gracilis (Gray, 1845), D. hainanensis (Yang, 1984), D. harti (Boulenger, 1899), D. ludovici (Mocquard, 1905), D. sokolovi (Darevsky & Nguyen, 1983) and D. wegneri (Mertens, 1959)
Summary
The genus Dopasia Gray, 1853 (formerly allocated to the genus Ophisaurus) is one of the least known amongst the herpetofauna of south-east Asia (Brygoo 1987; Lin et al 2003; Nguyen et al 2011; Lavin and Girman 2019). An assessment of vouchered records and field observations of the rare anguid, Dopasia buettikoferi (Lidth de Jeude, 1905) in Borneo
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