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Masked Finfoot
   
   

Fig 1 : Masked Finfoot - male from Taman Negara, Peninsular Malaysia (2001).
  

Fig 2 :  Masked Finfoot - male from Taman Negara, Peninsular Malaysia (2001).


Fig 3 : Sungai Tahan, Taman Negara, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia.
 

Figs 1 and 2 :
Masked Finfoot - male
Heliopais personatus
Location :
Sungai Tahan, Taman Negara, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia. March 2001.
Habitat : Fast-flowing, rocky river flanked by lowland, primary forest.

Fig 3 :
Sungai Tahan, Taman Negara, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia. This pristine, lowland river has mainly rocky or boulder-dominated banks, with deep pools and fast-flowing rapids. Both banks are lined with undisturbed dipterocarp forest.

Fig 4 :
Masked Finfoot - male
Heliopais personatus
Location : Perak
, Peninsular Malaysia. May 2015.
Habitat : Lowland waterbody near karst limestone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fig 4 : Masked Finfoot - male from Perak, Peninsular Malaysia (2015).

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