Calamaria ulmeri

Calamaria ulmeri
Scientific classification
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 is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. It is commonly known as Ulmer's reed snake.

Etymology

The specific name, ulmeri, is in honor of American mammalogist Frederick A. Ulmer, Jr. (1892–1974).[2]

Geographic range

C. ulmeri is found in Indonesia.

References

  1. "Calamaria ulmeri ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2012. 2011. Retrieved 25 December 2016.
  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).

Further reading

  • 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).


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