University of Malaya Field Study Centre Ulu Gombak Forest: animal haven

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

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

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. QUAH, CHAN 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.

Biodiversity of Gua Kanthan, Perak

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.

 

Biodiversity in traditional tobbaco plantation, Bachok Kelantan

Female of Common Scarlet Crocothemis servilia (Libellulidae) perching on dead tobbaco stem.