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Calamaria virgulata BOIE, 1827

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Calamariinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Boie's Dwarf Snake 
SynonymCalamaria virgulata H. BOIE in F. BOIE 1827
Calamaria lumbricoidea SCHLEGEL 1837: 28.
Calamaria brachyura BOULENGER 1895: 481
Calamaria anceps WERNER 1896: 18
Calamaria gracilis BOULENGER 1896: 63 (fide INGER & MARX 1965)
Calamaria gracilis — BOULENGER 1897: 224
Calamaria collaris BOULENGER 1897: 225 (fide KOCH 2012: 266)
Calamaria mearnsi STEJNEGER 1907
Calamaria albopunctata BARBOUR 1908: 319
Calamaria quinquetaeniata DESPAX 1912
Calamaria mearnsi — TAYLOR 1922: 193
Calamaria egregia BARBOUR 1927
Calamaria virgulata — KOPSTEIN 1938
Calamaria zamboangensis LEVITON 1952
Calamaria brachyura — MARX 1955
Calamaria virgulata — INGER & MARX 1965: 186
Calamaria brachyura — MANTHEY 1983
Calamaria virgulata — INGER & VORIS 2001
Calamaria virgultea — GRISMER et al. 2004 (in error)
Calamaria virgulata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 142 
DistributionIndonesia (Kalimantan, Nias, Riau Archipelago, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Borneo),
Malaysia (East Malaysia);
Philippines Islands (Mindanao, Palawan and Sulu Islands)

Type locality: Java  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: CAS-SUR 13476
Holotype: MCZ 7106 [albopunctata]
Holotype: MCZ 22648 [egregia]
Holotype: USNM 36991 [Calamaria mearnsi] 
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CommentSynonymy after David & Vogel 1996 and INGER & MARX 1965. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin virgula, meaning small branch. 
References
  • Barbour, THOMAS 1908. Some new reptiles and amphibians. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 51 (12): 315-325 - get paper here
  • Boie, F. 1827. Bemerkungen über Merrem's Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien, 1. Lieferung: Ophidier. Isis von Oken 20: 508-566. - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1897. A catalogue of the reptiles and batrachians of Celebes with special reference to the collections made by Drs P & F Sarasin in 1893-1896. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1897: 193-237 [p228-237: batrachia] - get paper here
  • Boulenger, George A. 1895. Description of two new snakes of the genus Calamaria. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6)16: 481 - 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
  • Dunn, Emmett Reid; Burden, W. Douglas 1927. Results of the Douglas Burden Expedition to the Island of Komodo. II, Snakes from the East Indies. American Museum novitates (287) - 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
  • Howard, S.D. & Gillespie, G.R. 2007. Two New Calamaria (Serpentes) Species from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Journal of Herpetology 41 (2): 237 - 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
  • Koch, A. 2012. Discovery, Diversity, and Distribution of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Sulawesi and its offshore islands. Edition Chimaira, 374 pp. [ISBN 978-3-89973-432-4] - get paper here
  • Koch, A.; Arida, E.; Mcguire, J.A.; Iskandar, D.T. & Böhme, W. 2009. A new species of Calamaria (Squamata: Colubridae) similar to C. ceramensis de Rooij, 1913, from the Banggai Islands, east of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Zootaxa 2196: 19–30 - get paper here
  • Kopstein, F. 1938. Ein Beitrag zur Eierkunde und zur Fortpflanzung der Malaiischen Reptilien. Bull. Raffles Mus. No 14: 81-167
  • Lang, Ruud de 2017. The Snakes of Java, Bali and Surrounding Islands. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 435 pp. - get paper here
  • Lang, Ruud de & G. Vogel 2005. The snakes of Sulawesi. A field guide to the land snakes of Sulawesi with identification keys. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, 25, Frankfurt am Main, 312 pp.
  • Leviton, Alan E. 1952. A new Philippine snake of the genus Calamaria. J. Washington Acad. Sci. 42 (7): 239-240 - 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
  • MEGANTARA, E. N., JAUHAN, J., SHANIDA, S. S., HUSODO, T., FAUZI, D. A., HENDRAWAN, R., WULANDARI, I. & YUANSAH, Y. 2022. Herpetofauna distribution in different land cover types of West Java, Indonesia. Biodiversitas Journal of Biological Diversity, 23(6) - get paper here
  • Milto, K. D. 2025. Underestimated Herpetodiversity of Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park, West Java, Indonesia. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 32(1), 60-72 - get paper here
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  • Stuebing, R.B., Inger, R.F. & Lardner, B. 2014. A field guide to the snakes of Borneo, second edition. Natural history Publications (Borneo)
  • TEYNIÉ, ALEXANDRE; PATRICK DAVID, & ANNEMARIE OHLER 2010. Note on a collection of Amphibians and Reptiles from Western Sumatra (Indonesia), with the description of a new species of the genus Bufo. Zootaxa 2416: 1–43 - get paper here
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  • Weinell, J. L., Leviton, A. E., & Brown, R. M. 2020. A new species of reed snake, genus Calamaria (Colubridae: Calamariinae), from Mindoro Island, Philippines. Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology, DOI 10.26757/pjsb2020b14006 - get paper here
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