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Calamaria forcarti INGER & MARX, 1965

IUCN Red List - Calamaria forcarti - Data Deficient, DD
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Higher TaxaColubridae, Calamariinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymCalamaria forcarti INGER & MARX 1965: 184
Calamaria stahlknechti ROUX 1925 (non STOLICZKA)
Calamaria forcarti — INGER & VORIS 2001
Calamaria forcarti — WALLACH et al. 2014: 136 
DistributionIndonesia (N Sumatra, Nias)

Type locality: Deli, Sumatra  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: NMW 16710, male 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: “Maxillary teeth modified; third and fourth supralabials entering orbit; preocular present; mental touching anterior chin shields; paraparietal surrounded by 6 shields and scales; ventrals more than 175 in males, 190 in females; body slender without stripes; venter yellow; narrow dark crossbands behind head.” (Inger & Marx 1965)


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Lothar Forcart (1902-1990), a malacologist at Naturhistorisches Museum Basel who occasionally also worked on reptiles. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248 - 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: 863-891
  • TEYNIÉ, ALEXANDRE; PATRICK DAVID, & ANNEMARIE OHLER 2010. Note on a collection of Amphibians and Reptiles from Western Sumatra (Indonesia), with the description of a new species of the genus Bufo. Zootaxa 2416: 1–43 - 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.
 
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