Calamaria leucogaster BLEEKER, 1860
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Calamaria leucogaster
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| Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Calamariinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Ampat Lawang Dwarf Snake |
| Synonym | Calamaria leucogaster BLEEKER 1860 Calamaria rebentischi BLEEKER 1860 Calamaria arcticeps GÜNTHER 1866 Calamaria beccarii PETERS 1872: 34 Calamaria brooki BOULENGER 1895: 329 Calamaria smithi DUNN 1923: 3 Calamaria leucocephala BOETTGER 1898 (non DUMÉRIL & BIBRON) Calamaria bicolor VOGT 1925 (non DUMÉRIL & BIBRON) Calamaria leucogaster — INGER & MARX 1985: 63 Calamaria leucogaster — MANTHEY 1983 Calamaria leucogaster — INGER & VORIS 2001 Calamaria leucogaster — MALKMUS et al. 2020: 321 Calamaria leucogaster — WALLACH et al. 2014: 138 |
| Distribution | Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo, Kalimantan), Malaysia (Sarawak, Sabah) Type locality: Ampat Lawang, Sumatra. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.3.76 (63.12.11.141), RMNH Holotype: MSNG 28873 [beccarii] Holotype: ZMB, Borneo [Calamaria bicolor] Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.3.61 (64.9.2.69 [arcticeps] Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.3.55 (95.2.28.30 [brookii] Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.3.43 (1922.11.24.5) [smithi] |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis. Maxillary teeth unmodified (Fig. 2, top); third and fourth supralabials enter orbit; mental not touching anterior chin shields; paraparietal surrounded by 5 shields and scales; no dark pigment on ventrals (Inger & Marx 1965: 64). Color: Ground color dark brown, dorsal scales usually with a light or dark network; body with or without dark longitudinal stripes; the striped pattern consisting of a narrow dark stripe along the edges of the vertebral and paravertebral scale rows, a wider stripe on adjacent halves of the fourth and fifth scale rows, a stripe along adjacent halves of the second and third scale rows, and a thin dark line along the upper edge of the first scale row; lower two-thirds of the first scale row cream-colored; a black collar 2 to 5 scales wide, separated from parietals by 1 to 3 scales and sometimes bordered posteriorly by a narrow yellow ring; a dark ring around body at root of tail, usually a second black ring near tip; head dark brown middorsally with a light streak running through the center of the prefrontal, the lateral edge of the supraocular, and the lateral portion of the parietal; a dark longitudinal stripe along adjacent portions of prefrontals and supralabials, continuing behind eye along adjacent edges of parietal and supralabial; remainder of upper lip and underside of head cream-colored; ventrals and subcaudals cream-colored; tail with a mid-ventral dark stripe in some individuals (Inger & Marx 1965: 64). |
| Comment | Synonymy after INGER & MARX 1965. Distribution: Inger and Marx 1965: 68 mention that only two specimens have been reported from Java, but possibly have been collected elsewhere. Not on Java fide de Lang 2017. |
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