''Calamaria ulmeri'',
commonly known as Ulmer's reed snake, is a
species of
snake in the
family Colubridae
Colubridae (, commonly known as colubrids , from la, coluber, 'snake') is a family of snakes. With 249 genera, it is the largest snake family. The earliest species of the family date back to the Oligocene epoch. Colubrid snakes are found on ever ...
. The species is
endemic to
Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...
.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''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.
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Habitat
The preferred natural
habitat of ''C. ulmeri'' is
forest, at an altitude of .
Description
The
holotype of ''C. ulmeri'' has a
snout-to-vent length of , and an incomplete tail. It is brownish
dorsally, and it is yellow ventrally.
Inger
Inger may refer to:
People
* Inger (given name), a list of people
* Inger, the main character of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale ''The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf''
* Robert F. Inger (1920–2019), American herpetologist
* Stella Inger, America ...
& Marx (1965).
Reproduction
''C. ulmeri'' is
oviparous
Oviparous animals are animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, most reptiles, and all pterosaurs, dinosaurs (including birds), and ...
.
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References
Further reading
*David P
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...
, Vogel G (1996). ''Snakes of Sumatra: An annotated checklist and key with natural history notes''. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira. 259 pp. .
* 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).
ulmeri
Snakes of Asia
Reptiles of Indonesia
Endemic fauna of Sumatra
Reptiles described in 1962
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