A new Liopeltis Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Colubridae) from Pulau Tioman, Peninsular Malaysia.

Liopeltis is a genus of poorly known, infrequently sampled species of colubrid snakes in tropical Asia. We collected a specimen of Liopeltis from Pulau Tioman, Peninsular Malaysia, that superficially resembled L. philippina, a rare species that is endemic to the Palawan Pleistocene Aggregate Island Complex, western Philippines.

A new caruncle-bearing fanged frog (, Dicroglossidae) from Laos and Thailand.

A new species of the dicroglossid frog genus is described from recent and historical museum specimens collected in central and southern Laos and northeastern Thailand. has males that bear a caruncle on top of the head, and most closely resembles from adjacent southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia. However, the new species is readily distinguished from , and all other caruncle-bearing species of in mainland Southeast Asia, by its adult and larval morphology, mitochondrial DNA, and advertisement call.