Acrochordus granulatus

Description. Table 1 shows the measurement. Measurements shown in Table 1. Total length, 571 mm; tail length, 68 mm. Head short and rounded, with same width as neck; eyes small; nostrils tubular (Fig. 2). Skin of both body and venter with folds; no enlarged scales on venter; entire body covered with fine scales of about same size (Fig. 3); 156 mid-body scales; 10 scales eye – eye; 5 scales eye – lip on each side; 5 / 6 (left / right) scales naris – eye; 14 supralabial scales on each side; 18 infralabial scales on each side. Multiple tumors on body surface. Head dark brown with pale yellow spots (Fig. 2); body to tail alternating blackish-brown and pale yellow bands; dark brown bands longer at dorsal midline than toward venter (Fig. 3).

Sumber: First Record of the Marine File Snake Acrochordus granulatus (Squamata: Acrochordidae) from Japan Based on the Specimen of the Third Higher School

[English name: Marine File Snake; Japanese name: Hime-yasuri-hebi] (Figs 1 – 3; Table 1)

Sumber: First Record of the Marine File Snake Acrochordus granulatus (Squamata: Acrochordidae) from Japan Based on the Specimen of the Third Higher School

Distribution. Acrochordus granulatus is distributed in northern Australia (Cogger 2014), continental coastal areas from the Indian Peninsula to the Malay Peninsula and Indochina Peninsula (Cox et al. 1998; Nguyen et al. 2009; Murthy 2010), Hainan Island (Huang 1963), the Sunda Islands (de Rooij 1917; Stuebing et al. 2014) and the Philippine Islands (Dunson and Minton 1978; Bernstein and Bautista 2020).

Sumber: First Record of the Marine File Snake Acrochordus granulatus (Squamata: Acrochordidae) from Japan Based on the Specimen of the Third Higher School