Candoia aspera
Recorded in Indonesia: West Papua, Batanta, Misool, Waigeu, Biak, Japen.
Indonesia · Island occurrence guide
5 existing species accounts name this island or island group. This index shows the current sourced collection, not a complete island checklist.
Papua · Regional landscape
Lorentz National Park spans a remarkable gradient from the central cordillera toward the Arafura coast, connecting mountain environments with southern lowlands and wetlands.
This describes the wider region. Local vegetation and the habitat of an individual species require their own evidence.
The wider region
Indonesian New Guinea and nearby Indonesian islands. Papua New Guinea is outside this chapter; Aru is indexed under Maluku.
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Gold: islands with records in this collection. Coastlines show geography, not the range of any individual species. Only Indonesian territory is highlighted.
Landscape context
These guides describe documented environments in the wider Papua region. They do not assign every listed species to every habitat or protected site.

Forested ridges, mountain lakes and changes along a slope.
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Read lakes, floodplains and waterlogged forest separately.
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The wooded, tidal boundary between land and sea.
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Choose an account recorded in Biak. Its country-level evidence retains the named islands and qualifications; it is not a record of a sighting at an exact map point.
Recorded in Indonesia: West Papua, Batanta, Misool, Waigeu, Biak, Japen.
The shared collection
Each card opens the same species account used by the country lists. A shared island record does not imply occurrence in all countries sharing that island.
(GÜNTHER, 1877)
(GÜNTHER, 1867)
(PETERS & DORIA, 1878)
(SCHLEGEL, 1872)
(JAN, 1865)
Sources checked 7 October 2026. Taxonomic and distribution treatments may change.
Species distribution sources are provided separately in the evidence panel and each species account.