Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Calamariinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Synonym | Calamaria lumholtzi ANDERSSON 1923 Calamaria raveni COCHRAN 1923 Calamaria lumholtzi — INGER & MARX 1965: 148 Calamaria lumholtzi — INGER & VORIS 2001 Calamaria lumholtzii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 139 |
Distribution | Indonesia (Borneo: SE Kalimantan)
Type locality: Tumbang Maruwei, Borneo
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Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Syntypes: ZMUO = Univ Zool Mus Oslo, females Holotype: USNM 51638 [Calamaria raveni] |
Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Maxillary teeth modified; third and fourth supralabials entering orbit; mental not touching anterior chin shields; dorsal seales dark, a light stripe on second and third rows, bordered below by a dark stripe; ventrals white. (INGER & MARX 1965: 148)
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Comment | Synonymy after INGER & MARX 1965.
Abundance: rare, only known from a few specimens (Stuebing et al. 2014) |
Etymology | Named after Dr. Carl Sophus Lumholtz (1851-1922), a Norwegian naturalist, ethnologist, humanist, and explorer. |
References |
- Andersson, L.G. 1923. Some reptiles and batrachians from Central-Borneo. Collected in the years 1914 and 1915 by Carl Lumholtz. Nyt. Mag. Naturvidensk (Meddelelser Fra Det Zoologiske Museum), Kristinia, 61 (7): 119—125.
- Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
- Cochran, D. M. 1923. Two new species of Calamaria from Borneo. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 36: 91-92 - 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: 863-89 1
- Pethon, P. 1969. List of type specimens of fishes, amphibians and reptiles in the Zoological Museum, University of Oslo. Rhizocrinus, Occasional Papers, Zoological Museum, University of Oslo, 1 (1): 1-17
- Stuebing, R.B., Inger, R.F. & Lardner, B. 2014. A field guide to the snakes of Borneo, second edition. Natural history Publications (Borneo)
- 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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