Calamaria
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Calamaria is a large genus of dwarf snakes of the family Colubridae. It contains sixty recognized species.
Description
Species in the genus Calamaria share the following characteristics. Maxillary teeth 8-11, subequal; anterior mandibular teeth a little longer than the posterior. Head not distinct from neck; eye small, pupil round; nostril pierced in a minute nasal; no loreal; no internasals; preocular present or absent; no temporals, the parietals in contact with the labials. Body cylindrical; dorsal scales smooth, without apical pits, in 13 rows. Tail short; subcaudals paired.Species
- Calamaria abramovi Orlov, 2009
- Calamaria abstrusa Inger & Marx, 1965
- Calamaria acutirostris BoulengerGeorge Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
, 1896 - Calamaria albiventer (GrayJohn Edward GrayJohn Edward Gray, FRS was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray ....
, 1834) - Calamaria alidae BoulengerGeorge Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
, 1920 - Calamaria apraeocularis M.A. SmithMalcolm Arthur SmithMalcolm Arthur Smith was a herpetologist and physician working in the Malay Peninsula.-Early life:He was interested in reptiles and amphibians from an early age...
, 1927 - Calamaria banggaiensis Koch et al.
- Calamaria battersbyi Inger & Marx, 1965
- Calamaria bicolor DumérilAndré Marie Constant DumérilAndré Marie Constant Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of anatomy at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle from 1801 to 1812, when he became professor of herpetology and ichthyology...
, BibronGabriel BibronGabriel Bibron was a French zoologist. He was born in Paris. Son of an employee of the Museum national d'histoire naturelle, he had a good foundation in natural history and was hired to collect vertebrates in Italy and Sicily. He classified a number of reptile species with André Marie Constant...
& DumérilAuguste DumérilAuguste Henri André Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of Herpetology and Ichthyology at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1857. His father André Marie Constant Duméril was also a zoologist...
, 1854 - Calamaria bitorques PetersWilhelm PetersWilhelm Karl Hartwich Peters was a German naturalist and explorer.He was assistant to Johannes Peter Müller and later curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. In September 1842 he travelled to Mozambique via Angola. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens...
, 1872 - Calamaria boesemani Inger & Marx, 1965
- Calamaria borneensis Bleeker, 1860
- Calamaria brongersmai Inger & Marx, 1965
- Calamaria buchi Marx & Inger, 1955
- Calamaria butonensis Howard & Gillespie, 2007
- Calamaria ceramensis De Rooij, 1913
- Calamaria concolor Orlov et al., 2010
- Calamaria crassa Lidth de Jeude, 1922
- Calamaria curta BoulengerGeorge Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
, 1896 - Calamaria doederleini Gough, 1902
- Calamaria eiselti Inger & Marx, 1965
- Calamaria everetti BoulengerGeorge Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
, 1893 - Calamaria forcarti Inger & Marx, 1965
- Calamaria gervaisii DumérilAndré Marie Constant DumérilAndré Marie Constant Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of anatomy at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle from 1801 to 1812, when he became professor of herpetology and ichthyology...
, BibronGabriel BibronGabriel Bibron was a French zoologist. He was born in Paris. Son of an employee of the Museum national d'histoire naturelle, he had a good foundation in natural history and was hired to collect vertebrates in Italy and Sicily. He classified a number of reptile species with André Marie Constant...
& DumérilAuguste DumérilAuguste Henri André Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of Herpetology and Ichthyology at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1857. His father André Marie Constant Duméril was also a zoologist...
, 1854 - Calamaria gialaiensis Ziegler et al., 2008
- Calamaria grabowskyi Fischer, 1885
- Calamaria gracillima (Günther, 1872)
- Calamaria griswoldi Loveridge, 1938
- Calamaria hillenius Inger & Marx, 1965
- Calamaria ingeri Grismer, Kaiser & Yaakob, 2004
- Calamaria javanica BoulengerGeorge Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
, 1891 - Calamaria joloensis TaylorEdward Harrison TaylorEdward Harrison Taylor was an American herpetologist from Kansas.He was born in Maysville, Missouri and studied at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, graduating with a B.A. in 1912. Subsequently, he went to the Philippines, where at first he held a teacher's post in a village in central...
, 1922 - Calamaria lateralis Mocquard, 1890
- Calamaria leucogaster Bleeker, 1860
- Calamaria linnaei F. BoieFriedrich BoieFriedrich Boie was a German scientist and brother of Heinrich Boie. He was born at Meldorf in Holstein and died at Kiel....
, 1827 - Calamaria longirostris Howard & Gillespie, 2007
- Calamaria lovii BoulengerGeorge Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
, 1887 - Calamaria lumbricoidea F. BoieFriedrich BoieFriedrich Boie was a German scientist and brother of Heinrich Boie. He was born at Meldorf in Holstein and died at Kiel....
, 1827 - Calamaria lumholtzi Andersson, 1923
- Calamaria margaritophora Bleeker, 1860
- Calamaria mecheli Schenkel, 1901
- Calamaria melanota JanGiorgio JanGiorgio Jan was an Italian taxonomist, zoologist, botanist, herpetologist, and writer. He is also known as Georg Jan or Georges Jan....
, 1862 - Calamaria modestaCalamaria modestaCalamaria modesta is a dwarf snake species in the genus Calamaria found in Java.-References:* Duméril, A.M.C., G. Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854. Erpétologie générale ou Histoire Naturelle complète des Reptiles. Vol. 7 . Paris, xvi + 780 S....
DumérilAndré Marie Constant DumérilAndré Marie Constant Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of anatomy at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle from 1801 to 1812, when he became professor of herpetology and ichthyology...
, BibronGabriel BibronGabriel Bibron was a French zoologist. He was born in Paris. Son of an employee of the Museum national d'histoire naturelle, he had a good foundation in natural history and was hired to collect vertebrates in Italy and Sicily. He classified a number of reptile species with André Marie Constant...
& DumérilAuguste DumérilAuguste Henri André Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of Herpetology and Ichthyology at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1857. His father André Marie Constant Duméril was also a zoologist...
, 1854 - Calamaria muelleri BoulengerGeorge Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
, 1896 - Calamaria nuchalis BoulengerGeorge Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
, 1896 - Calamaria palavanensis Inger & Marx, 1965
- Calamaria pavimentataCalamaria pavimentataThe collared reed snake is a species of Colubrid snake found in Asia. In Japan it is also called Miyara's collared snake.-Description:...
DumérilAndré Marie Constant DumérilAndré Marie Constant Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of anatomy at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle from 1801 to 1812, when he became professor of herpetology and ichthyology...
, BibronGabriel BibronGabriel Bibron was a French zoologist. He was born in Paris. Son of an employee of the Museum national d'histoire naturelle, he had a good foundation in natural history and was hired to collect vertebrates in Italy and Sicily. He classified a number of reptile species with André Marie Constant...
& DumérilAuguste DumérilAuguste Henri André Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of Herpetology and Ichthyology at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1857. His father André Marie Constant Duméril was also a zoologist...
, 1854 - Calamaria pfefferi StejnegerLeonhard Hess StejnegerLeonhard Hess Stejneger was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist. Stejneger specialized in vertebrate natural history studies. He gained his greatest reputation with reptiles and amphibians....
, 1901 - Calamaria prakkei Lidth de Jeude, 1893
- Calamaria rebentischi Bleeker, 1860
- Calamaria sangi Truong, Koch & Ziegler, 2009
- Calamaria schlegeli DumérilAndré Marie Constant DumérilAndré Marie Constant Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of anatomy at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle from 1801 to 1812, when he became professor of herpetology and ichthyology...
, BibronGabriel BibronGabriel Bibron was a French zoologist. He was born in Paris. Son of an employee of the Museum national d'histoire naturelle, he had a good foundation in natural history and was hired to collect vertebrates in Italy and Sicily. He classified a number of reptile species with André Marie Constant...
& DumérilAuguste DumérilAuguste Henri André Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of Herpetology and Ichthyology at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1857. His father André Marie Constant Duméril was also a zoologist...
, 1854; pink-headed reed snake - Calamaria schmidti Marx & Inger, 1955; Schmidt's reed snake
- Calamaria septentrionalis BoulengerGeorge Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
, 1890 - Calamaria suluensis TaylorEdward Harrison TaylorEdward Harrison Taylor was an American herpetologist from Kansas.He was born in Maysville, Missouri and studied at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, graduating with a B.A. in 1912. Subsequently, he went to the Philippines, where at first he held a teacher's post in a village in central...
, 1922 - Calamaria sumatrana Edeling, 1870
- Calamaria thanhi Ziegler & Quyet, 2005
- Calamaria ulmeri Sackett, 1940
- Calamaria virgulata F. BoieFriedrich BoieFriedrich Boie was a German scientist and brother of Heinrich Boie. He was born at Meldorf in Holstein and died at Kiel....
, 1827 - Calamaria yunnanensis Chernov, 1962