Calamaria joloensis TAYLOR, 1922

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Calamariinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Jolo Worm Snake
Synonym	Calamaria joloensis TAYLOR 1922: 203 Calamaria joloensis — TAYLOR 1944: 152 Calamaria joloensis — INGER & MARX 1965: 102 Calamaria joloensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 138
Distribution	Philippines (Jolo) Type locality: Type loc. Central part of Jolo I., Sulu Arch., P. I.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: CAS 60901, Coll., E. H. Taylor, Oct. 30, 1920.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis. Maxillary teeth modified; third and fourth supralabial entering orbit; preocular present; mental touching anterior chin shields; eye about two-thirds eye-mouth distance; dorsal scales with a light network (Inger & Marx 1965: 102). Description. Rostral broader than high, portion visible from above about half length of prefrontal suture; prefrontal shorter than frontal, touching first 2 supralabials; frontal hexagonal, 3 times width of supraocular, about 3/4 length of parietal; parietal 1.5 times length of prefrontal; paraparietal surrounded by 5 shields and scales; nasal larger than postocular; preocular present; neither ocular as 7 high as eye; eye /io of eye-mouth distance; 5 supralabials, third and fourth entering orbit, fifth the largest, first, third, and fourth subequal and smaller than second; mental triangular, touching anterior chin shields; 5 infralabials, first 3 touching anterior chin shields; both pairs of chin shields meeting in midline; 3 gulars in midline between posterior chin shields and first ventral. Body thickness index 0.010; tail short, thick, tapering near end to a blunt tip; dorsal scales reduce to 4 rows on tail opposite sixth subcaudal anterior to terminal scute. Hemipenis bifurcate. Eight modified maxillary teeth. Ventrals 119 in male; subcaudals 13; total length 144 mm.; ratio of tail length to total length 0.069 (Inger & Marx 1965: 103).
Comment
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	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 Taylor, E.H. 1944. Present location of certain herpetological and other type specimens. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 30 (1): 117-187. - get paper here Taylor,E.H. 1922. Additions to the herpetological fauna of the Philippine Islands, I. Philippine Journal of Science 21: 161-206 - 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. Weinell, J. L., Leviton, A. E., & Brown, R. M. 2021. 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 Weinell, Jeffrey L.; Errol Hooper, Alan E. Leviton, Rafe M. Brown 2019. Illustrated Key to the Snakes of the Philippines. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (4) 66 (1): 1-49 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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