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Higher TaxaColubridae, Calamariinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
SubspeciesCalamaria 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] 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 1224 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy after INGER & MARX 1965.

Etymology (gimletti): Named after "Dr. Gimlette", the collector of the type. 
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. 
References
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