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Phaenicophaeus curvirostris (Shaw, 1810)

Phaenicophaeus curvirostris, known as the Chestnut-breasted Malkoha, is a cuckoo belonging to the family Cuculidae (Avibase, 2018). The Chestnut-breasted Malkoha measures approximately 46 cm, including a 26 cm tail. It has a dark oily-green ...

Nurfahana Binti Mo`in & Ms. Nur Aina Amira Binti Mahyudin • 30 November 2023 • 209 views

Chrysopelea paradisi (Boie, 1827)

Chrysopelea paradisi is a swift-moving snake from the family Colubridae. It is typically known as Paradise Flying Snake or sometimes called Paradise Tree Snake. The snake is native to Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam, India, ...

Ms. Noor Faradiana Binti Md Fauzi & Mr. Mohammad Shahfiz Azman • 15 November 2023 • 619 views

Libellago aurantiaca (Selys, 1859)

Libellago belongs to the family Chlorocyphidae and a majority of the species are diminutive. The members of the family Chlorocyphidae are quite unique compared to the other damselfly families because their wings are longer than their abdomen...

Ms. Nurfarhana Hizan Binti Hijas & Assoc. Prof. Dr. Choong Chee Yen • 15 September 2023 • 763 views

Agropsar sturninus (Pallas, 1776)

Agropsar sturninus, commonly known as the Daurian starling or Purple-backed starling, is a fascinating small bird in the Family Sturnidae. This species is known to inhabit secondary forests, forest edges, open areas and plantations including...

Ms. Anis Zafirah Binti Zam Beri & Mr. Mohammad Shahfiz Azman • 31 July 2023 • 549 views

PARASITIC CYMOTHOIDS: A FISH’S NIGHTMARE

The above parasitic “tongue biter” is Cymothoa eremita collected from the host Nemipterus furcosus. The first collected specimen was from Malaysian waters (in Sarawak) by Anand et al. (2015, 20...

Dr. Melissa Beata Martin • 31 May 2023 • 1650 views

Calyptomena hosii (Sharpe, 1892)

Calyptomena hosii, commonly called Hose's Broadbill, is a bird classified under Family Calyptomenidae. It is an endemic species in Borneo. The distribution of this species is restricted to the hill and submontane mixed dipterocarp fores...

Ms. Noor Faradiana Binti Md Fauzi & Mr. Mohammad Shahfiz Azman • 31 March 2023 • 2942 views

Buceros bicornis Great hornbill

The Great Hornbill (Buceros bicornis) is also known as the concave-casqued hornbill or great pied hornbill. It can be found in south-west India, south China and Indochina south to Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra (Indonesia). The Great Hornbi...

Mr. Muhammad Faris Bin Mohd Ridza & Mr. Tan Kok Kiat • 31 January 2023 • 5018 views

Pitta moluccensis (Statius Muller, 1776)

Pitta moluccensis or Blue-winged Pitta is a passerine bird under the family Pittidae. Pittas has stout bills, short tails and long legs with no visible scaling (Robson, 2015).

Ms. Nur Aina Amira Binti Mahyudin & Mr. Kaviarasu Munian • 30 September 2022 • 7601 views

Microhierax fringillarius (Drapiez, 1824)

Microhierax fringillarius, commonly called Black-thighed Falconet, is one of the smallest birds of prey in the family Falconidae. It occurs in Brunei Darussalam, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. The bird can be found in...

Ms. Noor Faradiana Binti Md Fauzi & Mr. Mohammad Shahfiz Azman • 30 August 2022 • 7682 views

Phrynoidis asper (Gravenhorst, 1829)

Phrynoidis asper has a stout dark brownish to blackish body with a broad and blunt head devoid of bony crests. The inconspicuous ‘x’ mark is present on the back between the round-to-oval-shaped paratoid glands at the juvenile sta...

Ms. Nurfarhana Hizan Binti Hijas • 15 August 2022 • 7953 views

Aonyx cinereus (Illiger, 1815)

Aonyx cinereus, commonly known as Asian Small-clawed Otter or Oriental Small-clawed Otter, is a native otter species in Asia that belongs to the family Mustelidae. It is the smallest of 13 otter species found globally (Prakash et al...

Ms. Anis Zafirah Binti Zam Beri, Mr. Mohammad Shahfiz Azman & Ms. Nor Hazwani Binti Ahmad Ruzman • 29 July 2022 • 7544 views

Sitta frontalis (Swainson, 1820)

Sitta frontalis or Velvet-fronted Nuthatch is one of the most attractive birds in the Sittidae family (Del Hoyo et al., 2008). The Velvet-fronted Nuthatch is also known locally as Pepatuk Dahi Hitam (Jeyarajasingam, 2012).

Mrs. Manoshini A/p Appanan & Mr. Mohammad Shahfiz Azman • 15 June 2022 • 7400 views

Betta livida Ng & Kottelat, 1992

The fighting fish, commonly known as Betta, is a freshwater ray-finned fish found in the South-east Asia region. Betta is usually small in size, but they are energetic and colourful.

Mr. Tan Kok Kiat • 31 May 2022 • 7966 views

Maxomys rajah Thomas, 1894

Brown spiny rat or locally known as Tikus Duri Hitam Pudar is one of the species from the family Muridae (Rats and Mice).

Ms. Nor Hazwani Binti Ahmad Ruzman & Mr. Mohammad Shahfiz Azman • 29 April 2022 • 7708 views

Trimeresurus nebularis Vogel, David & Pauwels, 2004

Trimeresurus nebularis, or the Cameron Highlands Pit Viper is a species under the family Viperidae, subfamily Crotalinae (pit vipers). It is also known as the Clouded Pit Viper (Baker, 2020; Uetz et al., 2020) and in vernacular, Ula...

Mrs. Nur Hazwanie Binti Abd Halim, Ms. Nurfarhana Hizan Binti Hijas, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Khaldun Ismail & Prof. Indraneil Das • 15 April 2022 • 8375 views

Amyda cartilaginea Boddaert, 1770

The Southeast Asian Softshell Turtle, Amyda cartilaginea (Family Trionychidae), also known as Asiatic Softshell Turtle or Black-rayed Soft-shelled Turtle is generally found in all the nations of Southeast Asia, except for the Philippines (Va...

Ng Chiao Ying • 15 March 2022 • 7822 views

Discotettix belzebuth Serville, 1838

Distributed in Borneo, Discotettix belzebuth Serville, 1838 (referred commonly as pygmy devil or spiky pygmy grasshopper) is one of the six extant species listed under genus Discotettix, which is exclusive to the terrestrial regions...

Mrs. Amira Aqilah • 15 February 2022 • 7735 views

Neurobasis chinensis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Neurobasis chinensis also called Common Green Metalwing is a damselfly species that belongs to the Calopterygidae family.

Ms. Fatin Qurratul 'ain Binti Saberam & Mrs. Aziemah Binti Kinan • 31 December 2021 • 7833 views

Odontomachus rixosus Smith, 1857

Odontomachus rixosus Smith, 1857, belongs to the genus Odontomachus, subfamily of Ponerinae and tribe Ponerini (Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014) is a forest species that widely distributed throughout tropical Asia and can be found in t...

Mrs. Auni Atikah & Mrs. Nur Zati Akma Mustafa • 15 December 2021 • 8295 views

Macaca arctoides (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1831)

The Stump-tailed Macaque or Bear Macaque (Macaca arctoides) locally known as Beruk Kentoi in Malay is an Old-World Monkey native to Cambodia, southwestern China, northeastern India, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam (Ch...

Mrs. Aziemah Binti Kinan & Ms. Fatin Qurratul 'ain Binti Saberam • 30 November 2021 • 8014 views

Nycticebus coucang (Boddaert, 1785)

Nycticebus coucang commonly known as Sunda Slow Loris or Greater Slow Loris. It is also referred by local as Kera Duku or Kongkang. It is a mammal that constitutes Family Lorisidae and belongs to Order Primates (Francis, 2019).

Ms. Noor Faradiana Binti Md Fauzi, Mr. Mohammad Shahfiz Azman, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Khaldun Ismail & Dr Scott A Weinstein • 15 November 2021 • 8869 views

Dysphaea dimidiata Selys, 1853 (Black Velvetwing)

Black Velvetwing or scientifically known as Dysphaea dimidiata is a moderate sized damselfly with a hindwing length of 31 mm.

Ms. Nurfarhana Hizan Binti Hijas • 29 October 2021 • 7503 views

Dendrelaphis cyanochloris (Wall, 1921)

Blue Bronzeback or known scientifically as Dendrelaphis cyanochloris is classified under the family Colubridae. Frank Wall was the first to describe it in 1921. It is also known as Wall’s Bronzeback.

Ms. Nur Aina Amira Binti Mahyudin & Mr. Kaviarasu Munian • 15 September 2021 • 7897 views

Galeopterus variegatus Audebert, 1799

The Sunda flying lemur or Sunda colugo (Kubong) is one of the species from the family Cynocephalidae (Colugos).

Ms. Nor Hazwani Binti Ahmad Ruzman & Mr. Mohammad Shahfiz Azman • 31 August 2021 • 7189 views

Ardea alba Linnaeus, 1758

Compared to other egret groups, this species has a much larger body size. The wingspan of this bird can reach up to 145 cm, and the body length ranges from 94 cm to 104 cm.

Ms. Nur Aina Amira Binti Mahyudin, Ms. Nur Athirah Binti Fauzi & Mr. Kaviarasu Munian • 02 August 2021 • 7320 views

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