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Higher TaxaColubridae, Calamariinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
SubspeciesCalamaria lovii gimletti BOULENGER 1905
Calamaria lovii lovii BOULENGER 1887
Calamaria lovii wermuthi INGER & MARX 1965
Calamaria lovii ingermarxorum DAREVSKY & ORLOV 1992 
Common NamesE: Lowi’s Reed Snake
G: Lovis Riednatter 
SynonymCalamaria lovii BOULENGER 1887: 169
Calamaria lowi — DUNN 1923: 2
Calamaria lowi — INGER & MARX 1965: 221
Calamaria lovii — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997: 329
Calamaria lovii — CHAN-ARD et al. 1999: 31
Calamaria lovi — INGER & VORIS 2001
Calamaria lowi — MALKMUS et al. 2002: 317
Calamaria lovii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 139

Calamaria lovii lovii BOULENGER 1887
Calamaria lowi — MOCQUARD 1890
Calamaria lovii gimletti BOULENGER 1905
Calamaria gimletti BOULENGER 1905: 456
Calamaria doerianense BRONGERSMA 1928: 255
Calamaria pavimentata SCLATER 1891 (non DUMÉRIL & BIBRON)
Calamaria javanica WALL 1921 (non BOULENGER)
Calamaria ventralis COCHRAN 1923
Calamaria melanota CHASEN & SMEDLEY 1927 (non JAN)
Calamaria javanica lineata BRONGERMA 1928 (fide HOOGMOED 1995)
Calamaria gimletti — SMEDLEY 1931: 53
Calamaria gimletti — TWEEDIE 1940
Calamaria gimletti — TWEEDIE 1954
Calamaria javanica lineata — MARX 1955
Calamaria lowi gimletti INGER & MARX 1965: 226
Calamaria fraseri TAYLOR 1962: 254
Calamaria lowi lowi — INGER & MARX 1965: 222
Calamaria lovii gimletti — GRISMER et al. 2004
Calamaria lovii lovii — GRISMER et al. 2004
Calamaria lovii lovii — NGUYEN et al. 2009
Calamaria lovii gimletti — ORLOV 2009
Calamaria gimlettii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 137
Calamaria lovii gimletti — QUAH et al. 2018
Calamaria lovii gimletti — LEE 2021

Calamaria lovii ingermarxorum DAREVSKY & ORLOV 1992
Calamaria lovii ingermarxi DAREVSKY & ORLOV 1992
Calamaria lowii ingermarxi — ORLOV et al. 2003
Calamaria lovii ingermarxorum — MICHELS & BAUER 2004
Calamaria lowi ingermarxi — DUBOIS 2007

Calamaria lovii wermuthi INGER & MARX 1965
Calamaria lowi wermuthi INGER & MARX 1965: 225
Calamaria lovii wermuthi — GRISMER et al. 2004
Calamaria lovii wermuthi — NGUYEN et al. 2009 
DistributionIndonesia (Java, Borneo), Malaysia (Sarawak, Sabah); Type locality: Rejang River, Sarawak, Malaysia, Singapore,

gimletti: W Malaysia; Type locality: Kelantan, Malaysia.

ingermarxi: Vietnam (Buon Luoi); Type locality: “Buoenloy, Gilai-Contum Province, Vietnam; 750 m” elevation.

wermuthi: Indonesia (Java); Type locality: Java  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: NHMUK 1946.1.3.63 (formerly BMNH 1887.2. 7.18).
Holotype: USNM 51637 [Calamaria ventralis]
Holotype: ZMB 29690, female [wermuthi]
Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.3.71, collected by J.D. Gimlette, between 1890 and 1905 [gimletti]
Holotype: ZISP 20006, also given as ZIL or ZIN, collected by I.S. Darevsky on 18 June 1982 [ingermarxorum] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (170 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy after INGER & MARX 1965. 
EtymologyNamed in honor of Brooke Low who gave the specimen to the London Natural History Museum.

Calamaria lovii wermuthi was named after German herpetologist Heinz Wermuth (1918-2002). See Friederich 2003 for an obituary.

Calamaria lovii ingermarxorum was named after American herpetologists Robert F. Inger (1920-1919) and Hymen Marx (1925-2007), who both worked at the Fields Museum in Chicago. 
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