Philippine slow lori, Nycticebus menagensis (Lydekker, 1893) of south Sarawak, around 950m ASL. Nycticebus menagensis (Philippine slow loris) is a nocturnal, arboreal strepsirrhine primate of the family Lorisidae, distributed in northern and eastern Borneo and parts of the southern Philippine archipelago.…
Kinabalu mountain banana, Musa monticola M.Hotta ex Argent – of Sabah/Borneo – around 1620m ASL. Musa monticola is a wild banana endemic to the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo, where it is confined to montane habitats around Mount Kinabalu…
Asian litter frog, Leptobrachium gunungense Malkmus, 1996 – of Sabah / Borneo Leptobrachium gunungense is a montane litter frog of the family Megophryidae that is endemic to the higher elevations of Mount Kinabalu in Sabah on northern Borneo where it…
Kinabalu horned frog, Pelobatrachus baluensis (Boulenger, 1899) former Xenophrys baluensis of Sabah / Borneo Pelobatrachus baluensis is a montane frog in the family Megophryidae that is endemic to northern Borneo in Sabah, Malaysia, with a confirmed range on Mount Kinabalu…
Borneo skink or striped tree skink, Dasia vittata (Edeling, 1865) – of Borneo Dasia vittata is an arboreal oviparous skink endemic to the island of Borneo, occurring in Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia. It is most often seen on trunks and…
Arachnothelphusa cf. merarapensis from central Sarawak / Borneo – around 1600m ASL We already knew from the crab genus Arachnothelphusa that they must have a direct development. This in-situ photo now clearly shows for the first time that this is…
Hard-shelled katydid Dysmorpha obesa Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 of central Sabah / Borneo – 200m ASL
Long-tailed macaque, Macaca fascicularis Raffles, 1821 from Sabah / Borneo – Kinabatangan. Anyone of us who has ever been to Borneo has seen the long-tailed macaques more than once. In some national parks, they are even animals you don’t want…
Kobayashi’s horned frog, Pelobatrachus kobayashii Malkmus and Matsui, 1997 from Sabah / Borneo. A few years ago, I had the chance to photograph the rare Pelobatrachus kobayashii. Nevertheless, I wanted to find and photograph this very impressive and very large…
Stork-billed kingfisher – Pelargopsis capensis (Linnaeus, 1766) – P. c. innominata (van Oort, 1910) – of Borneo (200m ASL) Pelargopsis capensis is a large tree kingfisher of the family Alcedinidae that is widely but patchily distributed from the Indian subcontinent…