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Jeff wrote: ↑

January 2nd, 2021, 3:46 pm

Wow Kurt, are you an Anomochilus magnet or have you figured out their niche?
Very impressive...
Jeff

Thanks, Jeff. Yeah, sometimes i get lucky! My second Anomochilus leonardi to date! I have also found a even rarer (or perhaps the rarest?) Xenophidion schaeferi).

It's been ages since I last posted here! Happy New Year, and to a better 2021! Female Siamese Peninsular Pit Viper (Trimeresurus sabahi fucatus) from the highlands of Pahang. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50578715586_562d0a5a63_b.jpg Trimeresurus sabahi fucatus_MG_7541 copy by Kurt (Orionmyste...

Those chameleons and Uroplatus are so cool! Some of the frogs are amazing as well!

Get both!

Missing the forest and the wildlife so much! Not allowed to exercise outdoors. No hiking, no herping either. As soon as this is over, I will go camp at the substation and herp till i drop!

Looks like you had a great herping trip! That venustus spot seems to be an open secret

That mangrove pit viper looks really similar to the morph we have in Kedah.

Yeah, our blue coral snakes are really cool. You'll have to find both the Peninsular subspecies and the Bornean subspecies: Peninsular: Calliophis bivirgatus flaviceps https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47942227346_754b764e66_z.jpg Calliophis bivirgatus_MG_5170 copy by Kurt (Orionmystery) G , on Fl...

Love the viper swallowing prey shot, and all the colorful snakes!!! <3. I had no idea it's that expensive to herp in Ecuador! What a shame.

I love coral snakes but unfortunately, we don't get that many species here.

Mark wrote: ↑

January 11th, 2020, 4:37 am

WOW, good job Kurt. Awesome finds and amazing pics!

Thanks, Mark. Finally got lucky at the highland and found a Bungarus flaviceps baluensis up on a tree during my last tour there. There was a viper on that tree earlier so I assumed the krait went up the tree to hunt for that viper.

dendrelaphis wrote: ↑

January 10th, 2020, 3:42 am

These pictures are surreal! And I know from experiece several of these species you don't come across every day! On the contrary..

Thanks, man. Got lucky with a few species! The one from Siberut has no official name yet!

jonathan wrote: ↑

January 1st, 2020, 11:51 pm

I'm quite in awe of the species you find and the pictures you take. Thank you very much Kurt.

Thanks, Jonathan. The pleasure is mine.

Absolutely fantastic! I like best all the species of tree vipers and how I can see the swirls of colors that make up the less-detailed color we would see from a safe distance. How/why are there 2 ant heads on that subannulatus? It just seems improbable. Thank you for this post! Goose Thanks, Goose....

Yeah, sometimes I link from the images on Facebook, but the IQ is very bad though.

I hotlink my images from Flickr. Just copy and paste the BBCode here.

It is that time of the year to round up some of my favorite images taken in the year of 2019. Again, lots of herps (amphibians, reptiles) this year. Mostly with a wide angle lens and/or a 60mm macro lens. Snakes #1 - Up close with a adult male Sumatra Pit Viper (Trimeresurus sumatranus) from the low...

Did you "hotlink" the images i.e insert image[img]http://image_URL[/img}

I hotlinked 29 images before . No problem.
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Hilarious. Loved it.

Thanks, Mark. Not much luck with snakes but at least I got a couple of nice frogs - M. edwardinae and Sabahphrynus maculatus. I'll need to go back there again!

So i went on a 6 night herping trip with friends from 1StopBorneo: Shaveez and Chun. 3 nights at the lowland, followed by another 3 nights at the hill. 1st night: five Psammodynastes pictus 2nd night: three Ptyas fusca, two Psammodynastes pictus 3rd night: Ptyas fusca, Psammodynastes pictus, Ahaetul...

Heh, no, we didn't not find a single Xenochrophis trianguligerus!!! What we found: day 1: five Psammodynastes pictus day 2: three Ptyas fusca, two Psammodynastes pictus day 3: Ptyas fusca, Psammodynastes pictus, Ahaetulla prasina, Dryocalamus subannulatus, Tropidolaemus subannulatus day 4: 2x Psammo...

Ha, but I would rather have luck with rare species than with those relatively common species :D Yeah, T. borneensis can be quite hard to spot! I have only seen two myself. I have seen a lot more T. malcolmi (seven?). Yes, we did find a Sabah Pitviper up there. The only species that excited me a litt...

You're the only herper I know who has seen the Top 3 snakes in Borneo: Xenodermus javanicus, Stoliczkia borneensis, Gonyophis margaritatus. Incredible!!! I herped with Shavez, Chun, Ledumin for 6 nights last week. No luck.

Still an amazing spot. I am surprised that the snake didn't start its day until 10am???!!!

Stoliczkia borneensis and Xenodermus javanicus! WOW WOW WOW! Dream snakes! Good job.

Great shots. That red bamboo is such a stunner! <3

Great post, Nick. Love those Varanus and Python shots!!!

I spent about a week herping and chilling in Mentawai Islands, Sumatra a couple of weeks ago. Managed to find the green pitvipers but not Trimeresurus brongersmai. The compulsory pitviper profile shot :D I think this species is being described as we speak, but I am not entirely sure. Some say it's T...

Great post, John. I didn't photograph many of what you have posted here :D I couldn't remember why I reached out my arm like that, until I read your caption: watermelon seeds shooting. Of course! Still couldn't believe we lost that chameleon. I still need some chameleons and salamanders in my life!!...

Kurt With Anomochilus and Xenophidion under your belt, there are few remaining conquests. Your post is a great resumé for "Expert Field Man" - others need not apply. Jeff Thanks, Jeff. I still couldn't believe i actually found a Xenophidion! Anomochilus is a lot more common though. I have only seen...

Porter wrote: ↑

January 4th, 2019, 5:25 pm

I dig your style Always a pleasure to see. I really like that coil strike pose of the banded, belly display of the striped coral, and dragon wings

Thank you, Porter.

dendrelaphis wrote: ↑

February 9th, 2019, 5:45 am

These pics are amazing as always and the B. flaviceps is breathtaking....

Thanks. Yeah, stunning creature. i was totally stoked when I spotted it!!!

BillMcGighan wrote: ↑

January 28th, 2019, 5:26 am

As always, Kurt.
Thanks.

Thank you, Bill. Great haul considering that there were only two herpers for the whole trip!

Just got back from Sabah, Malaysian Borneo a couple of days ago. Borneo Herp Tour (Sabah), Jan 20 - 26. Highland and lowland forest. Six nights of herping. 19 snakes, 15 species. Two persons. Jan 20 - Calliophis bivirgatus tetrataenia - Tropidolaemus subannulatus - Xenopeltis unicolor - Asthenodipsa...

This is so awesome!

Great post! Question, what differentiates your Xenophidion schaeferi from Xenophidion acanthognathus? Thanks. I think X. acanthognathus only occurs in Borneo? A few Xenophidion have been found the past few years. There was another X. schaeferi found in 2017. Mine was on April 20, 2018. There was al...

Those finds and shots are incredible. The Xenophidion must have made your heart jump, you might consider publishing that encounter somewhere. When you say "lowland forest of sarawak", where in Sarawak was that? Thanks. I was so stoked even weeks after the find!!! :D Mainly just the national parks o...

It is that time of the year to round up some of my favorite images taken in the year of 2018. Again, lots of herps (amphibians, reptiles) this year. Mostly with a wide angle lens and/or a 60mm macro lens. Here are just eight of them. More of them here: http://orionmystery.blogspot.com/2019/01/favori...

Nice one, John. I had forgotten that you proceeded to Danum after Kota Kinabalu!

Although the herping hours were limited, you still managed to find a few lifer species (to me). I still haven't found any Aphaniotis ornata nor Ptychozoon horsfieldii!

Eulophophyllum i.e the pink leaf katydid!

http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2017/01/eu ... yllum.html

Oops...first to comment again

Impressive frogs and lizards ID skill!

That leaf mimic grasshopper is Systella sp.

Excellent post again, John.

I wasn't aware of Cyrtodactylus matsuii until I read your post!

Gotta find a Eulophophyllum the next time I am there!

Thanks Kurt! I have a 2005 article by Das about Cyrtodactylus in Borneo in a now-defunct journal/magazine called Gekko. I couldn't find a digital copy. It's got some pretty good info about the different species. C. ingeri , yet another of the similar-looking Cyrtodactylus species, is/(was?) known o...

Wonderful post, John.

I missed that Rhacophorus cyanopunctatus! Oops

The biggest I saw was Limnonectes leporinus in MNP.

Four nights, i think! We didn't see any Tarsier on the first night! One on the second night, another on third night, and TWO on the fourth night!

Great post, John. You have no idea how green with envy I was with your Gonocephalus doriae, Calliophis bivirgatus and Trimeresurus borneensis finds :D. Luckily, I managed to find them during my recent trips to Borneo!!! Great job ID'ing all those animals too. How do we differentiate between C. inger...

DanW wrote:Very cool, great variety of herps and awesome shots as usual.

Dan

Thank you, Dan

BillMcGighan wrote:As always... first class
Thanks for posting

Thanks, Bill

Paul Freed wrote:Spectacular, simply spectacular! Amazing photography of amazing creatures. Thanks for sharing, Kurt.

Paul

Thank you, Paul

Nice! Not been to Sulawesi yet even though it's not that far from KL. Tempted to go find the Tropidolaemus laticinctus!

Ptyas fusca https://scontent.fkul13-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/36729971_666692487001516_6268867091953090560_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=9a39c73dbfc564ea201e306513e7a894&oe=5BC79BA5 https://scontent.fkul13-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/36748400_666692517001513_3293173849314557952_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=b10ff21e54582e501...

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Megophrys nasuta https://scontent.fkul13-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/36692119_666692637001501_8806352487897366528_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=16ea2b9248c0e2af4c8fe84100b64b13&oe=5BC61C63 Cyrtodactylus malayanus, juve https://scontent.fkul13-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/36681161_666692263668205_2432654014572134400_n...

Borneo Herp Tour June/July 2018. 6 nights of herping in Sabah, both lowland and highland, followed by another 4nights in Sarawak. I didn't photograph all of the finds but here is the species list: Species List: SNAKES: Sabah - 1x Sunbeam Snake (Xenopeltis unicolor) - 2x Sumatran Pitviper (Trimeresur...