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Calamaria ulmeri

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Species of snake

Calamaria ulmeri
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (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. ulmeri
Binomial name
Calamaria ulmeri
Sackett, 1940

Calamaria ulmeri, commonly known as Ulmer's reed snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Sumatra.

Etymology

The specific name, ulmeri, is in honor of American mammalogist Frederick A. Ulmer, Jr. (1892–1974).

Geographic range

C. ulmeri is found in northern Sumatra, and is only known from two specimens.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of C. ulmeri is forest, at an altitude of 2,070 m (6,790 ft).

Description

The holotype of C. ulmeri has a snout-to-vent length of 28.4 cm (11.2 in), and an incomplete tail. It is brownish dorsally, and it is yellow ventrally.

Reproduction

C. ulmeri is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ Iskandar, D.; Jenkins, H.; Das, I.; Auliya, M.; Inger, R.F.; Lilley, R. (2012). "Calamaria ulmeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T191951A2020194. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T191951A2020194.en. Retrieved 12 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 ulmeri, p. 270).
  3. ^ Species Calamaria ulmeri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  4. Inger & Marx (1965).

Further reading

  • David P, Vogel G (1996). Snakes of Sumatra: An annotated checklist and key with natural history notes. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira. 259 pp. ISBN 978-3930612086.
  • Inger RF, Marx H (1965). "The Systematics and Evolution of the Oriental Colubrid Snakes of the Genus Calamaria ". Fieldiana Zoology 49: 1–304. (Calamaria ulmeri, pp. 68–70, Figure 18).
  • Sackett JT (1940). "Zoological results of the George Vanderbilt Sumatran Expedition, 1936-1939. Part IV—The Reptiles". Notulae Naturae of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 41: 1–3. (Calamaria ulmeri, new species).
Taxon identifiers
Calamaria ulmeri


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