Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Calamariinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Common Names | E: Bleeker's Dwarf Snake |
Synonym | Calamaria margaritophorus BLEEKER 1860: 285 Calamaria margaritophora — GÜNTHER 1865 Calamaria maculolineata PETERS 1863: 403 Calamaria hoevenii EDELING 1870 Calamaria hoevenii — BOULENGER 1894 Calamaria margaritifera — BOULENGER 1894 Calamaria margaritophora — INGER & MARX 1965: 166 Calamaria margaritophora — INGER & VORIS 2001 Calamaria margaritophora — WALLACH et al. 2014: 139 |
Distribution | Indonesia (endemic to Sumatra)
Type locality: Ampat-Lawang, Sumatra.
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Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.2.9 (63.12.11.146) |
Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Maxillary teeth modified; third and fourth supralabials entering orbit; preocular present; mental touching anterior chin shields; paraparietal surrounded by 6 shields and scales; subcaudals of males 17 or fewer, of females 11 or fewer; without a continuous, dark vertebral stripe; tail thick, tapering abruptly near tip; ventrals of males 159 or fewer, of females 165 or fewer. (INGER & MARX 1965: 166) |
Comment | Synonymy after David & Vogel 1996. |
Etymology | After the Latin “margarita” = pearl, and Greek “phorus” = carrying. |
References |
- Bauer, A.M.; Günther,R. & Klipfel,M. 1995. The herpetological contributions of Wilhelm C.H. Peters (1815-1883). SSAR Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology, 714 pp.
- Bleeker, P. 1860. Over de reptilien-fauna van Sumatra. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind., Batavia, 21: 284-298. - 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: 863-89 1
- Lidth DE JEUDE, T.W. VAN 1922. Snakes from Sumatra. Zoologische Mededelingen 6: 239-253. - get paper here
- Peters, Wilhem Carl Hartwig 1863. Über eine neue Schlangengattung, Styporhynchus, und verschiedene andere Amphibien des zoologischen Museums. Monatsber. königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin. 1863 (October): 399-413 - get paper here
- 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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