The Cat Tien National Park covers 71,920 ha of both evergreen and deciduous lowland forests (100 m to 300
m above sea level).
It is located in Dong Nai Province in southern Vietnam.
During a herpetological field survey in August 2008 (Geissler, 2010), an adult female I. elongata was discovered within a dipterocarp forest.
During the handling a faecal sample was collected for content analysis.