''Calamophis'' is a
genus
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of snakes of the
family
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Homalopsidae
The Homalopsidae are a family of snakes which contains about 28 genus, genera and more than 50 species. They are commonly known as Indo-Australian water snakes, mudsnakes, or bockadams. They are also known as ''ular air'' (lit. "water snake") in ...
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Species
* ''
Calamophis jobiensis''
(Meyer, 1874)
* ''
Calamophis katesandersae''
Murphy, 2012
* ''
Calamophis ruuddelangi''
Murphy, 2012
* ''
Calamophis sharonbrooksae''
Murphy, 2012
References
Further reading
*Murphy, John. (2012). Synonymised and forgotten, The Bird's Head stout-tailed snakes, ''Calamophis'' Meyer (Squamata: Serpentes: Homalopsidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 60.
Snake genera
Colubrids
Taxa named by Adolf Bernhard Meyer
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