Vogel's Reed Snake

materials_examined

Holotype: BMNH 1968.764. Type locality ‘ Camp Padang, Gunong Tahan, Pahang, Malaya, 5400 – 5700 ft’ = Gunung Tahan, Pahang, West Malaysia, Malaysia. Diagnosis: Only known adult male is 163 mm SVL, 192 mm TL. Head triangular, flat, tapered anteriorly when viewed dorsally, not depressed anteriorly, indistinct from neck; snout rounded, elongate; body cylindrical, moderately elongate; tail relatively long, ending in a sharp spine; rostral longer than broad, triangular, separates nasals and touching prefrontals; nostril piercing the anterior lower margin of the nasal, adjacent to the upper margin of the first supralabial and to edge of rostral; internasals absent, fused with prefrontals; one pair of prefrontals; one elongate loreal; one preocular; one postocular; one supraocular; suboculars absent; 1 + 2 temporals; eight supralabials, first and second in contact with nasal, second, third and fourth in contact with the loreal, fourth and fifth entering orbit; seven infralabials, first pair in contact, first to fourth in contact with anterior chin shield; 15 dorsal scale rows at midbody; dorsal scales smooth; 125 ventral scales; single cloacal scale; 29 divided subcaudals (David & Pauwels

Systematics and natural history of mountain reed snakes (genus Macrocalamus; Calamariinae)