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Calamaria griswoldi LOVERIDGE, 1938

IUCN Red List - Calamaria griswoldi - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaColubridae, Calamariinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymCalamaria lumbricoidea griswoldi LOVERIDGE 1938
Calamaria vermiformis SMITH 1931: 27
Calamaria griswoldi — MARX & INGER 1955
Calamaria griswoldi — INGER & MARX 1965: 92
Calamaria vermiformis — TAYLOR 1965
Calamaria griswoldi — MANTHEY 1983
Calamaria griswoldi — INGER & VORIS 2001
Calamaria griswoldi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 137 
DistributionMalaysia (Borneo, Sabah, elevation up to 1800 m)

Type locality: Luidan River; Bundu Tuhan; Mount Kinabalu, North Borneo  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 43580 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Maxillary teeth modified; third and fourth supra-labials entering orbit; preocular present; mental touching anterior chin shields; color blackish brown above with a narrow white line between successive scale rows; immaculate yellowish white below (Inger & Marx 1965: 92).


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EtymologyNamed after John Augustus Griswold Jr. (1912-1991), American aviculturist and ornithologist who was on the Harvard primate expeditions to Borneo (1936), Thailand (1937), and Peru (1939). He became Curator of Birds, Philadelphia Zoological Gardens (1947). He collected the type. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Das, I. 2012. A Naturalist's Guide to the Snakes of South-East Asia: Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Bali. Oxford J, ohn Beaufoy Publishing - get paper here
  • Grismer, L. L., H. Kaiser & N. S. Yaakob 2004. A new species of Reed Snake of the genus Calamaria H. Boie, 1827, from Pulau Tioman, Pahang, West Malaysia. Hamadryad 28 (1&2): 1-6 - get paper here
  • Inger, R. F. & H. MARX 1965. The systematics and evolution of the oriental colubrid snakes of the genus Calamaria. Fieldiana: Zoology 49: 1-304. - get paper here
  • Inger, R.F. & Voris, H. K. 2001. The biogeographical relations of the frogs and snakes of Sundaland. Journal of Biogeography 28: 863-891
  • Loveridge, A. 1938. New snakes of the genera Calamaria, Bungarus and Trimeresurus from Mt. Kinabalu, North Borneo. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 51: 43-46. - get paper here
  • Malkmus, R.; Manthey, U.; Vogel, G. Hoffmann, P. & Kosuch, J. 2002. Amphibians and reptiles of Mount Kinabalu (North Borneo). A.R.G. Ganther Verlag, Rugell, 404 pp.
  • Malkmus,R. 1985. Amphibien und Reptilien vom Mount Kinabalu (4101 m), Nordborneo. Herpetofauna 7 (35): 6-13 - get paper here
  • Manthey,U. 1983. Exkursion am Mt. Kinabalu (4101 m), Nordborneo, Teil 3: Checkliste der Herpetofauna oberhalb 600 m ü. NN. Herpetofauna 5 (23): 20-31 - get paper here
  • Marx, H. & R. F. INGER 1955. Notes on the snakes of the genus Calamaria. Fieldiana: Zoology 37: 167 - 209 - get paper here
  • Smith, M.A. 1931. The herpetology of Mt. Kinabalu, North Borneo, 13455 ft. Bull. Raffles Mus. No. 5: 3-32. - get paper here
  • Stuebing, R.B., Inger, R.F. & Lardner, B. 2014. A field guide to the snakes of Borneo, second edition. Natural history Publications (Borneo)
  • Taylor,E.H. 1965. The serpents of Thailand and adjacent waters. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 45 (9): 609-1096 - get paper here
  • Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
 
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