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Calamaria hilleniusi

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Species of snake

Calamaria hilleniusi
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Genus: Calamaria
Species: C. hilleniusi
Binomial name
Calamaria hilleniusi
Inger & Marx, 1965

Calamaria hilleniusi is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to Oceania and Southeast Asia.

Etymology

The specific name, hilleniusi, is in honor of Dutch herpetologist Dick Hillenius.

Geographic range

C. hilleniusi is found in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of C. hillenius is forest.

Behavior

C. hilleniusi is terrestrial and semi-fossorial.

Reproduction

C. hilleniusi is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ Iskandar, D.; Jenkins, H.; Das, I.; Auliya, M.; Inger, R.F.; Lilley, R. (2012). "Calamaria hilleniusi ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T176625A1442324. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T176625A1442324.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Calamaria hilleniusi, p. 124).
  3. ^ Species Calamaria hilleniusi at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

  • Das, Indraneil (2006). A Photographic Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Borneo. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 144 pp. ISBN 0-88359-061-1. (Calamaria hilleniusi, p. 8).
  • Inger, Robert F.; Marx, Hymen (1965). "The Systematics and Evolution of the Oriental Colubrid Snakes of the Genus Calamaria". Fieldiana: Zoology 49: 1-304. (Calamaria hilleniusi, new species, pp. 96–99, Figure 25).
  • Inger, Robert F.; Voris, Harold K. (2001). "The biogeographical relations of the frogs and snakes of Sundaland". Journal of Biogeography 28: 863–891.
  • Stuebing, Robert B.; Inger, Robert F.; Lardner, Björn (2014). Field Guide to the Snakes of Borneo, Second Edition. Borneo: Natural History Publications. 310 pp. ISBN 978-9838121514.


Taxon identifiers
Calamaria hilleniusi


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