Species Richness Estimation of Reptiles in Selected Sites of Tasik Kenyir, Hulu Terengganu, Malaysia

Zakaria, Amirah Azizah; Rahim, Noor Aisyah A.; Ahmad, Amirrudin; Abdullah, Mohd Tajuddin

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“…Table 1 incorporates data from this study and previous studies (Grismer et al 2011;Sumarli et al 2015;Nur Amalina et al 2017;Badli-Sham et al 2019;Zakaria et al 2019;Fatihah-Syafiq et al 2020;Komaruddin et al 2020) were the snakes species that had been known to the state of Terengganu to date. This consolidated checklist documented 71 species of snakes found in Terengganu.…”

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“…Terengganu's forests are still relatively understudied concerning their snake's diversity compared to other group of reptiles, and most of the information available for snakes are only from the herpetofauna checklists, derived from short-term inventories (e.g., Dring 1979;Grismer et al 2011;Sumarli et al 2015;Badli-Sham et al 2019;Zakaria et al 2019;Fatihah-Syafiq et al 2020;Komaruddin et al 2020).…”

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“…However, data on snake species richness in SLF is rather limited to inform the parks' managers to spread the awareness and information among the visitors. Only two snake species, Naja sumatrana and Tropidolaemus wagleri are known from this locality based on Zakaria et al (2019) checklist. Regrettably, the number is seriously underestimating the species richness of snakes from this area because of the short-term inventory executed by the study.…”

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Uneven Species Occurrence and Richness of Lowland Snakes (Serpentes, Squamata) in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia with New Locality Records.

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This study documented information on the composition, diversity, richness, and temporal occurrence of snakes at Sekayu’s lowland forest (SLF), Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia for the first time. The snakes recorded within the SLF were sampled haphazardly from 2013 to 2019, employing the Visual Encounter Survey (VES) and L-shape pitfall traps with drift fences. Forty-six snake species from 37 genera belonging to the nine families were recorded, of which eleven were new records to Terengganu. Individual-based rarefaction and extrapolation curves were not reaching asymptote, indicating that additional species can be recorded at the study area. Non-parametric species richness estimators estimated and produced a range between 51 and 57 species. ACE was the best estimator based on the quantitative evaluation. All species showed some variations of the occurrence patterns across months. Fourteen species occurred only once across the sampling years, and interestingly 11 of them were detected during the rainy season. In general, the number of species richness, abundance, and rare species were high during this season. Species richness of snakes is high at SLF but sampling effort should be intensified, especially during these rainy months, to obtain a robust estimated snake species richness in SLF. Terengganu harbor considerably high species richness of snakes with a total of 71 species to date (excluding marine snakes), but snake diversity is still underestimated as only a few localities were surveyed in the past years, primarily at the northern part. Future surveys should be commenced at the central and southern parts of Terengganu to complement the current investigation.

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Uneven Species Occurrence and Richness of Lowland Snakes (Serpentes, Squamata) in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia with New Locality Records.

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“…Accommodated with sufficient facilities, this area has become the most conducive place for recreational and ecotourism activities. SLF is known to house a diverse range of organisms, such as butterflies, aquatic invertebrates (Wahizatul et al 2011;Wahizatul and Geok 2016) and dragonflies (Wahizatul et al 2006;Choong et al 2013), reptiles (Zakaria et al 2019), fishes (Kottelat et al 1992;Tan and Ng 2005), and also diverse families of trees (Jarina et al 2007). Several species of reptiles have been described from this area such as skinks, Lipinia sekayuensis (Grismer et al 2014(Grismer et al , 2016, Tytthoscincus keciktuek and T. monticolus (Grismer et al 2018), plus a new genus and species of terrestrial crab, Gempala bilobata (Ng and Ahmad 2016), and Johora michaeli (Ng 2020).…”

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A decade of amphibian studies (Animalia, Amphibia) at Sekayu lowland forest, Hulu Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia

Badli-Sham¹,

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Aziz³

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Amphibians of Sekayu lowland forest have been studied more than a decade, with discoveries of new records of species showing no sign of abating between the years 2003 to 2020, indicating the remarkably rich diversity of anurans in this forest. Despite ceaseless anthropogenic activities in this area, this study successfully recorded 52 species of amphibians from 32 genera in the lowland forest of Sekayu. The species composition consisted of a single species from the family Ichthyophiidae and 51 species of anurans of 31 genera and six families. The number of species recorded has steadily increased especially during more recent surveys from 2015 to 2020. This study augments the total number of amphibian species recorded from Hulu Terengganu by ten additional species, increasing the total to 70 species for the district.

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“…Terengganu’s forests are still relatively understudied regarding snake diversity compared to other group of reptiles, and most of the information available for snakes are only from herpetofauna checklists, derived from short-term inventories (e.g., Dring 1979 ; Grismer et al 2011 ; Sumarli et al 2015 ; Badli-Sham et al 2019 ; Zakaria et al 2019 ; Fatihah-Syafiq et al 2020 ; Komaruddin et al 2020 ). In comparison to the lizards, freshwater turtles, and tortoises, ecological studies solely focusing on snakes in Terengganu is non-existent ( Grismer and Chan 2008 ; Grismer et al 2009 , 2014a ; Chan and Norhayati 2010 ; Chan and Chen 2011 ; Shahirah-Ibrahim et al 2018 ).…”

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Uneven species occurrence and richness of lowland snakes (Serpentes, Squamata) in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia, with new locality records

Syafiq¹,

Badli-Sham²,

Grismer³

et al. 2023

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This study documents information on the composition, diversity, richness, and temporal occurrence of snakes at Sekayu’s lowland forest (SLF), Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia for the first time. The snakes recorded within the SLF were sampled opportunistically from 2013 to 2019, employing the Visual Encounter Survey method (VES) and L-shape pitfall traps with drift fences. Forty-six snake species from 37 genera belonging to the nine families were recorded, of which 11 were new records to Terengganu. Individual-based rarefaction and extrapolation curves were not reaching asymptote, indicating that additional species can be recorded at the study area. Non-parametric species richness estimators estimated and produced a range between 51 and 57 species. ACE was the best estimator based on the quantitative evaluation. All species showed some variations of occurrence patterns across months. Fourteen species were only encountered once across the sampling years, and interestingly 11 of them were only detected during the rainy season (late October to January). In general, the number of species richness, abundance, and rare species were high during this season. Species richness of snakes is high at SLF but sampling effort should be intensified, especially during these rainy months, to obtain a robust estimated snake species richness in SLF. Terengganu harbor considerably high species richness of snakes with a total of 71 species to date (excluding marine snakes), but snake diversity is still underestimated as only a few localities were surveyed in the past years, primarily at the northern part. Future surveys should be commenced at the central and southern parts of Terengganu to complement the current investigation.

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Species Richness Estimation of Reptiles in Selected Sites of Tasik Kenyir, Hulu Terengganu, Malaysia

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References 27 publications

Uneven Species Occurrence and Richness of Lowland Snakes (Serpentes, Squamata) in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia with New Locality Records.

Uneven Species Occurrence and Richness of Lowland Snakes (Serpentes, Squamata) in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia with New Locality Records.

A decade of amphibian studies (Animalia, Amphibia) at Sekayu lowland forest, Hulu Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia

Uneven species occurrence and richness of lowland snakes (Serpentes, Squamata) in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia, with new locality records

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Species Richness Estimation of Reptiles in Selected Sites of Tasik Kenyir, Hulu Terengganu, Malaysia

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Uneven Species Occurrence and Richness of Lowland Snakes (Serpentes, Squamata) in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia with New Locality Records.

Uneven Species Occurrence and Richness of Lowland Snakes (Serpentes, Squamata) in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia with New Locality Records.

﻿A decade of amphibian studies (Animalia, Amphibia) at Sekayu lowland forest, Hulu Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia

﻿Uneven species occurrence and richness of lowland snakes (Serpentes, Squamata) in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia, with new locality records

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A decade of amphibian studies (Animalia, Amphibia) at Sekayu lowland forest, Hulu Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia

Uneven species occurrence and richness of lowland snakes (Serpentes, Squamata) in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia, with new locality records