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105 species of lizards, in 35 genera from 9 families, are now known from Borneo. The reticulated python is the largest python in the world, and the longest snake in the world. This reptile can have a size of 6 metres (20 ft) or more. The longer snakes have a size of 10 metres (33 ft).
The Borneo python (Python breitensteini), also known commonly as the Borneo short-tailed python, is a species of non-venomous snake in the family Pythonidae. The species is endemic to the island of Borneo .
Banded flying snake; Banded krait; Beauty rat snake; Bengal monitor; Black marsh turtle; Boiga cynodon; Boiga dendrophila; Boiga drapiezii; Boiga jaspidea; Boiga multomaculata; Boiga nigriceps; Borneo python; Bronchocela cristatella; Bronchocela jubata; Buettikofer's glass lizard; Buff striped keelback
The Kapuas mud snake (Homalophis gyii) is a species of snake in the family Homalopsidae. The species, which is native to Borneo , can change its epidermal colour spontaneously. [ 3 ]
Paradise tree snake or paradise flying snake (Chrysopelea paradisi) is a species of colubrid snake found in Southeast Asia. It can, like all species of its genus Chrysopelea , glide by stretching the body into a flattened strip using its ribs.
This species was assigned to the new world coral snake genus Maticora until phylogenetic studies revealed this species to be nested within the tropical coral snake species clade Calliophis and sister species to Calliophis intestinalis, the banded Malaysian coral snake. [4] This is a medium-sized coral snake with a slender body.
Anomochilus monticola, the Kinabalu giant blind snake, [3] mountain pipe snake, [4] or Mount Kinabalu dwarf pipesnake, [5] is a species of snake in the dwarf pipesnake family Anomochilidae. It is endemic to Kinabalu Park in northern Borneo , where it inhabits montane and submontane rainforest at altitudes of 1,450–1,513 m (4,757–4,964 ft).
A Naturalist's Guide to the Snakes of South-East Asia: Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali. Oxford, England: John Beaufoy Publishing. 176 pp. ISBN 978-1906780708. Loveridge A (1938). "New Snakes of the Genera Calamaria, Bungarus, and Trimeresurus from Mount Kinabalu, North Borneo".