Genus of snakes
Calamaria genus of dwarf burrowing[ 5] [ 6] family Colubridae . The genus contains 66 recognized species .[ 7] endemic to Asia .[ 8]
Description
Species in the genus Calamaria share the following characteristics. The eight to 11 maxillary teeth are subequal; the anterior mandibular teeth are somewhat longer than the posterior ones. The head is not distinct from neck; the eye is small, with a round pupil; the nostril is pierced in a minute nasal scale . No loreal , internasal , or temporal scales are present; the preocular can be present or absent; the parietals contact the labials . The body is cylindrical, with smooth dorsal scales , without apical pits, in 13 rows. The tail is short; the subcaudals are paired.[ 9]
Species
The following 67 described species in the genus Calamaria are recognized as being valid.[ 4]
Calamaria abramovi Orlov , 2009Calamaria abstrusa Inger & Marx , 1965Calamaria acutirostris Boulenger , 1896Calamaria albiventer (Gray , 1834) – white-bellied reed snakeCalamaria alcalai Weinell , Leviton & R. Brown , 2020[ 10] Calamaria alidae Boulenger, 1920 – Bengkulu reed snakeCalamaria andersoni Yang & Zheng , 2018Calamaria apraeocularis M.A. Smith , 1927Calamaria arcana Yeung , Lau & Yang , 2022Calamaria banggaiensis Koch , Arida , McGuire , Iskander & Böhme , 2009Calamaria battersbyi Inger & Marx, 1965 – Battersby's reed snakeCalamaria bicolor A.M.C. Duméril , Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril , 1854Calamaria bitorques W. Peters , 1872Calamaria boesemani Inger & Marx, 1965 – Boeseman's reed snakeCalamaria borneensis Bleeker , 1860Calamaria brongersmai Inger & Marx, 1965 – Brongersma's reed snake[ 11] Calamaria buchi Marx & Inger, 1955 – Dalat dwarf snake, Buch's reed snakeCalamaria butonensis Howard & Gillespie , 2007Calamaria ceramensis De Rooij , 1913Calamaria concolor Orlov et al., 2010 Calamaria crassa Lidth de Jeude , 1922Calamaria curta Boulenger, 1896 – dark-bellied reed snakeCalamaria doederleini Gough , 1902Calamaria dominici Ziegler , Tran & T.Q. Nguyen , 2019Calamaria eiselti Inger & Marx, 1965 – Eiselt's reed snakeCalamaria everetti Boulenger, 1893 – Everett's reed snakeCalamaria forcarti Inger & Marx, 1965 – Forcart's reed snakeCalamaria gervaisii A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 – Gervais's worm snake, Philippine dwarf snakeCalamaria gialaiensis Ziegler, V.S. Nguyen & T.Q. Nguyen, 2008 – Gia Lai reed snakeCalamaria grabowskyi J.G. Fischer , 1885Calamaria gracillima (Günther , 1872) – slender reed snakeCalamaria griswoldi Loveridge , 1938Calamaria hilleniusi Inger & Marx, 1965 Calamaria ingeri Grismer , Kaiser & Yaakob , 2004Calamaria javanica Boulenger, 1891 – Javanese reed snakeCalamaria joloensis Taylor , 1922Calamaria lateralis Mocquard , 1890Calamaria lautensis De Rooij, 1917 Calamaria leucogaster Bleeker, 1860 – Ampat Lawang dwarf snakeCalamaria linnaei F. Boie , 1827Calamaria longirostris Howard & Gillespie, 2007 Calamaria lovii Boulenger, 1887 – Lowi's reed snakeCalamaria lumbricoidea F. Boie, 1827 – variable reed snakeCalamaria lumholtzi Andersson , 1923Calamaria margaritophora Bleeker, 1860 – stripe-necked reed snake Bleeker's dwarf snakeCalamaria mecheli Schenkel , 1901Calamaria melanota Jan , 1862Calamaria modesta A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 Calamaria muelleri Boulenger, 1896 – Mueller's reed snakeCalamaria nebulosa J.L. Lee , 2021Calamaria nuchalis Boulenger, 1896 – narrow-headed reed snakeCalamaria palavanensis Inger & Marx, 1965 – Palawan worm snakeCalamaria pavimentata A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 – collared reed snakeCalamaria pfefferi Stejneger , 1901Pfeffer's reed snake[ 11] Calamaria prakkei Lidth de Jeude, 1893 – Prakke's reed snakeCalamaria rebentischi Bleeker, 1860 – Rebentisch's reed snakeCalamaria sangi T.Q. Nguyen, Koch & Ziegler, 2009 – Sang's reed snakeCalamaria schlegeli A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 – pink-headed reed snakeCalamaria schmidti Marx & Inger, 1955 – Schmidt's reed snakeCalamaria septentrionalis Boulenger, 1890 – Hong Kong dwarf snakeCalamaria strigiventris Poyarkov , T.V. Nguyen , Orlov & G. Vogel , 2019Calamaria suluensis Taylor, 1922 – yellow-bellied reed snake, Sulu reed snakeCalamaria sumatrana Edeling , 1870Calamaria thanhi Ziegler & Quyet , 2005 [ 12] Calamaria ulmeri Sackett , 1940Calamaria virgulata F. Boie, 1827 – Boie's dwarf snake, short-tailed reed snakeCalamaria yunnanensis Chernov , 1962Nota bene binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Calamaria .
See also
References
^ Genus Calamaria at Dahms Tierleben . http://www.dahmstierleben.de . (in German).
^ Gbif.org ^ Wikispecies.
^ a b Genus Calamaria The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
^ Ecologyasia.com ^ Animaldiversity.Umich.edu ^ "Biologi.lipi.go.id" (PDF) . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-25. Retrieved 2010-05-13 .^ Ecologyasia.com ^ Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I-XX. (Genus Calamaria , p. 330).^ Weinell, Jeffrey L.; Leviton, Alan Edward & Brown, Rafe Marion (2021). "A new species of reed snake, genus Calamaria (Colubridae: Calamariinae), from Mindoro Island, Philippines". Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology . 14 (2): 1– 14. doi :10.26757/pjsb2020b14006 . Calamaria alcalai , new species).^ a b Beolens, Bo ; Watkins, Michael ; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5 . (Calamaria brongersmai , p. 39; C. pfefferi , p. 205).^ Ziegler, Thomas ; Quyet, Le Khac (2005). "A new species of reed snake, Calamaria (Squamata: Colubridae), from the Central Truong Son (Annamite mountain range), Vietnam" Zootaxa 1042 : 27–38. (Calamaria thanhi , new species).
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