Tuesday 14 September 2021

ULAR DARAT MALAYSIA (LAND SNAKES OF MALAYSIA)

 New Book (Sept 2021)
ULAR DARAT MALAYSIA
LAND SNAKES OF MALAYSIA

Authored by

Norhayati Ahmad (UKM)
Daicus M. Belabut (UM)
Chan Kin Onn (NUS)

published by Penerbit UKM Bangi (UKM Press Bangi)




This Coffee Table Book won National Book Award 2022
Congratulations!







Thursday 8 May 2014

Anurofauna of Universiti Malaya Campus








Acknowledgements
Thanks to UMCARES & 'their families' in organising the frogging session during Earth Day 2014
Biodiversity in University of Malaya Campus

Saturday 3 May 2014

Grasshoppers & Crickets

Phlaeoba antennata (Female)


Elimaea ini


Phlaeoba antennata (male)


Conocephalus melaenus (nymph)

Xenocatantops humilis (nymph)

Conocephalus maculatus

Erucius sp.

Phaloriinae (?)

Landrevinae

Gryllacridinae

Nisitrus vitattus

Nisitrus vitattus (nymph)

Acknowledgements
Thanks to Tan, M.K. (NUS) for the ID

Friday 2 May 2014

New Bent-toed Gecko from Gunung Kanthan

Cyrtodactylus guakanthanensis
Gua Kanthan Bent-toed Gecko
A new species of karst forest-adapted Bent-toed Gecko (genus Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827) Zootaxa 3755(5): 434-446
L.L. GRISMER, Daicus M. BELABUT, Evan, S.H. QUAHCHAN K.C., P.L.Wood Jr., & Rosli HASHIM (2014)


It is nocturnal gekkonid. Can be sighted easily at the limestone karst & forest vegetation by limestone forest at Gunung Kanthan.

Acknowledgements
Many thanks to Lafarge Malaysia Berhad for their unfailing supports in biodiversity inventories & conserving biodiversity at the Gunung Kanthan.

Sunday 7 October 2012

Pulau Tioman and its wonders

View from Kampung Tekek's Jetty
Island flying fox Pteropus hypomelanus - Hundreds of them roosting at one tree.
Pulau Tioman's Bent-toed Gecko Cyrtodactylus tiomanensis - endemic to Pulau Tioman and usually found on large granite boulder either at night or daytime.
Kendall's Rock Gecko Cnemaspis kendallii - diurnal gecko and commonly found on boulders and tree trunks.